Are there any simple ways to do location lookups in GAE using the
PostalAddressProperty?

I manually made arrays with all the cities in a few states using US
Census data for cities with parent counties, found it insane, there
has to be a better way right?

On Sep 14, 2:30 pm, Barry Hunter <[email protected]> wrote:
> It looks like really its just a text field - nothing magic
>
> http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/docs/1.0/elements.html#gdPostalAddress
>
> On 14/09/2009, PatHaugen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> >  Currently, grouping together users by physical area has been a
> >  challenge I've met a few ways in various projects by having a 'city'
> >  field and using my own arrays with cities of all states, county arrays
> >  that contain multiple cities, and doing queries using these to find
> >  all people in a county or in a state, etc.
>
> >  Google's 'PostalAddressProperty' got me excited and I was wondering if
> >  there is a way to use this to simplify lookups for cities (based on
> >  zips), counties, states, etc with simple queries on this special field?
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