[SGVLUG] Distance between two locations

[Matthew Gallizzi]

FWIW, bikely.com does something like this, I think.

On 8/3/07, Jeremy Leader <jleader at alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:
>
> Determining the latitude/longitude of a location from its address is often
> referred to as "geocoding"; a web search for that term should help.
>
> For small numbers of requests, I believe both Yahoo and Google provide
> APIs to
> use their maps databases to do geocoding; they might even do the distance
> calculation for you too.  I believe Yahoo's is documented in
> developer.yahoo.com, I don't know about Google's API docs.
>
> --
> Jeremy Leader
> jleader at alumni.caltech.edu
> leaderj at yahoo-inc.com (work)
>
> on 08/03/2007 04:59 PM Peter Fogg  wrote:
> > The site that I am developing requires the ability to calculate the
> > distance between to locations. Brief Web surfing concluded in two
> > options - the longitude and latitude of the two locations must
> > determined external to the site and manually entered into the db
> > associated with the site and the distance calculated in the application
> > layer or use some third party service to do the calculation.
> >
> > Anyone have experience with solutions to this requirement or
> suggestions?
> >
> > Peter -
>
>
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