I suppose someone could provide this as a web service, but in the end ** somebody** is going to be making the calculations to determine latitude/longitude proximity.
Chris On Feb 19, 2008 10:03 AM, Bryan Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Rick, > > I'll have a look....guess sometimes the best way is still the old way > eh ;-) > > Cheers > - > > Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. > VP & Director of E-Commerce Development > Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. > phone: 250.480.0642 > fax: 250.480.1264 > cell: 250.920.8830 > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > web: www.electricedgesystems.com > > Notice: > This message, including any attachments, is confidential and may contain > information that is privileged or exempt from disclosure. It is intended > only for the person to whom it is addressed unless expressly authorized > otherwise by the sender. If you are not an authorized recipient, please > notify the sender immediately and permanently destroy all copies of this > message and attachments. > > > On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 07:55 -0500, Rick Root wrote: > > On 2/18/08, Bryan Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > My last time involved postal code data with lat/long values. An > > > equation was run to get all lat/longs inside the search radius and > then > > > you could grab all your records with postal cods that matched thse > lat6 > > > longs (or something along these lines). > > > > > > So what are folks using now? web services? some Google/MS API? other? > > > > postal code data. The fastest and most reliable way to do it. You > > can integrate it into your queries. Can't do that with a web > > service/API call. > > > > We're basically using a variation of this code in our application here > at Duke: > > > > http://www.opensourcecf.com/1/2007/02/Determining-Zip-Code-Proximity.cfm > > > > There's also a link on that page to a $5 zip code lat/long database that > we use. > > > > Rick > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:299339 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
