No worries ;-)
.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com http://cf4em.com -----Original Message----- From: Dominic Watson [mailto:watson.domi...@googlemail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 12:39 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Postal radus searches I didn't read your op properly, apologies. My answers were completely wide of the mark! ;) On 5 July 2011 16:49, Bobby Hartsfield <bo...@acoderslife.com> wrote: > > Thanks Dominic. I'm not sure I follow your last comment though. Wouldn't > that still require a maintained zipcode database with longs and lats? > > > .:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. > Bobby Hartsfield > http://acoderslife.com > http://cf4em.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dominic Watson [mailto:watson.domi...@googlemail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 11:07 AM > To: cf-talk > Subject: Re: Postal radus searches > > > I know that Solr was working on this for its next release (I was > looking over 6 months ago). This would allow free text geographical > searching which may be overkill for what you need but may be able to > just do what you're looking for too. > > It may also be worth looking at your db engine, some have spatial data > types that support distance calculations and such. > > HTH > > Dominic > > On 5 July 2011 14:38, Bobby Hartsfield <bo...@acoderslife.com> wrote: >> >> Hey All, >> >> It has been a long time since I did a postal code readius search. All of > the >> ones I did in the past involved purchasing and maintaining a postal code >> database and I was hoping there were some pretty solid services out there >> for it by now so I didn't have to do that anymore. >> >> Do any of you know of any services out there that you would qualify as >> "solid" that you can just pass a zip and a distance to and have it send > back >> the zips that it finds in the radius? >> >> I've heard that Google has one and wondered if anyone uses that one in a >> live app as well. >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> .:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. >> Bobby Hartsfield >> http://acoderslife.com >> http://cf4em.com >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:346101 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
