Re: Finding an Address
| From: | Tedd Sperling | Date: | Sat, 02 Mar 2013 01:13:53 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Finding an Address | ||
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On Feb 28, 2013, at 12:36 PM, Floyd Resler <fresler@adex-intl.com> wrote:
> I have a project where my client would like to find the nearest street address from where he
> current is. Getting the longitude and latitude is easy enough but I'm having a hard time
> finding out how to get the nearest house. I have found a lot of solutions for addresses maintained
> in a database but these addresses won't be in a database. I thought about just querying Google
> for each longitude and latitude within in a small circle but my math skills are nowhere near good
> enough to accomplish that. Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
> Floyd
What about using zip codes?
Like so:
http://php1.net/a/zipcode/
Cheers,
tedd
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