Yep, there is the Directions API but as you mentioned its not really suited to this use case.
On Monday, January 4, 2016 at 5:14:44 PM UTC-5, barryhunter wrote: > > > > >> I don't believe there is a way to compute distance between addresses >> directly without first retrieving the lat and long. >> > > Well *can* use the Directions API, it will give a driving (or walking > etc!) distance between two addresses. Or the Direction Matrix API to get > distances between multiple addresses. But it wont really 'scale' to running > more than a few tens of calculations. So using the streightline distance is > usually used, and that can be done in the application. > > ... but before using the Maps APIs terms, read the terms very carefully, > neither the geocoder nor the directions API can be used without displaying > a Google Map on the website. > > > > > > There also is > https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/java/datastore/geosearch > but its java only, not even the Cloud DataStore, so not PHP. > > > I beleive this concept: > https://code.google.com/p/geomodel/ > might would with the Cloud Datastore, not tried. > (would need reimplementing in PHP) > > > >> On Monday, January 4, 2016 at 3:50:44 PM UTC-5, Alex Kerr wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> Wondering how best to implement some basic geolocation stuff using >>> Google Cloud products (and open source if appropriate) >>> >>> I need to search user records I'm storing in Datastore, which include >>> the user's address (in ordinary human readable text format) to see which >>> other users are within a certain distance from them. Seems I can't do a >>> geospatial search directly on Datastore records but found something that >>> suggests a clever little mashup with Google's Search API: >>> http://ralphbarbagallo.com/2013/05/14/app-engine-geospatial-datastore-search-a-new-way/ >>> >>> Questions: >>> 1.) Is there any better (/more standard) way than what's suggested at >>> that link? (I know Cloud SQL allows geospatial searches but ideally I want >>> to use Datastore if possible to store my data in) >>> 2.) Geospatial matches (at least using above techniques) need latitude >>> and longitude - are there any Google APIs or open source PHP stuff I could >>> use to convert addresses into lat/lon? >>> >>> I'm running on PHP AppEngine by the way and need a solution I can >>> implement very quickly and easily if at all possible! >>> >>> Many thanks for any info/suggestions! >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Google App Engine" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/7aea1d41-e9a0-40aa-8b22-8d582f63376d%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/7aea1d41-e9a0-40aa-8b22-8d582f63376d%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/3f4cea79-7cad-40d1-8239-9e04567efc18%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
