Hi Ross, Thanks for the info. To be able to do geocoding on the fly and show the user their location (in the form of longitudes and latitudes) right then and there, would we have to adopt the same procedure that Larry suggested? In this case, how would we get longitudes and latitudes with only the addresses in hand? Please consider the following scenario:
1. You are in Illinois and your location is XYZ (longitudes and latitudes); 2. Our database has a list of businesses in Illinois, with different longitudes and latitudes; 3. You want to look up OUR database for all the locations that are near YOU within a radius of 5 Kilometers; 4. The results will be returned to another database on the fly. Is it possible to do this? If it is, then how can we do this and what is the most efficient method of doing this? I'm new to this so please accept my apologies in advance. Please suggest. Sam On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Rossko <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Since the database will keep growing, > > we will have to send requests in bulk to get their respective longitudes > and > > latitudes. Would this be possible? > > Don't do it that way. Do it at point of entry. > If your subscriber is typing in their address, let them see where > you're proposing to locate them (by geocoding on the fly) and allow > them to adjust the location if necessary. They're the people that > know better than any geocoder where they are, they're the people with > the most interest in getting it right. > > cheers, Ross K > > > > -- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
