postal code/zip code distance

[Nicholas Van Weerdenburg]

I need to do a store/restaurant locator search from a persons postal code.

Any suggestions on how to do this in Ruby/Rails? Commercial services
would be a consideration if effective and not too costly.

Thanks,
Nick

 

[James Britt]

I need to do a store/restaurant locator search from a persons postal code.

Any suggestions on how to do this in Ruby/Rails? Commercial services
would be a consideration if effective and not too costly.

Google Local?

James


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[Nicholas Van Weerdenburg]

Google Local?

James


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Looking at that now, but it doesn't take postal code only.

Thanks,
Nick

 

[Daniel Berger]

Looking at that now, but it doesn't take postal code only.

Thanks,
Nick

For possible ideas, take a look at
http://search.cpan.org/~tjmather/Geo-PostalCode-0.06/lib/Geo/PostalCode.pm

Regards,

Dan

 

[Anthony Elizondo]

Looking at that now, but it doesn't take postal code only.

Check out http://maps.huge.info/

Thanks,
Nick

Anthony Elizondo

 

[Nicholas Van Weerdenburg]

I need to do a store/restaurant locator search from a persons postal code=

 

[Michael Campbell]

I need to do a store/restaurant locator search from a persons postal code

My company did something like this, but in Java. In essense, we
bought a zipcode => lat/long map data set (~ $35 USD, IIRC), and then
the developer that did this dug up from google an algorithm to
calculate distances between two lat/long points.

Pretty simple, near as I can recall.

 

[Reid Thompson]

My company did something like this, but in Java. In essense, we
bought a zipcode => lat/long map data set (~ $35 USD, IIRC), and then
the developer that did this dug up from google an algorithm to
calculate distances between two lat/long points.

Pretty simple, near as I can recall.

load the data in postgresql and use it to calculate the distances