On 07/09/2009, maccgaz <macc...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>  Hi all,
>
>  I'm looking to make use of some mapping software for a web page and
>  this looks like it may be the best option for me.
>
>  Please can those in the know let me know whether this sounds feasible,
>  and if you have some time - point me in the right direction for some
>  of the more tricky bits?
>
>  Basically, I want to be able to take a UK Postcode and zoom the map
>  onto that area (With a marker), perhaps with a radius around it of,
>  say 10 miles. I'm sure this bit can be done... but this would be the
>  easy bit!

Maybe not as easy as you think. UK Postcodes are not well supported in
the API Geocoder.

You only get a low resolution location. Usually just the outcode, but
sometimes a sector based result. Somewhere between 2-15km accuracy at
best.

>
>  I then want to query my database which would provide a list of similar
>  postcodes. I would want to display these on the map as well and
>  calculate the distance between the main postcode and each postcode
>  from the database. Perhaps clicking on each marker would display the
>  data.

You should geocode the locations out have once and store the lat/long
temporally in your database, not geocode each one each and every time
need to run a query.

>
>  Essentially, I want to be able to highlight which are the closest
>  postcodes to the initial postcode. I've looked through quite a few
>  tutorials, but I'm not sure how I would be able to get this dynamic
>  list of postcodes to display - and then calculate the distances
>  between them.

A query in your database. Or at worst a query in javascript (and the
API has helpers to calculate distance)

>
>  I am a c#.NET developer and, whilst I can do know some javascript, I
>  am not very advanced in it at all so this seem quite difficult to do
>  in javascript. I had looked for some .NET controls, but they seem to
>  have stopped development since 2007! I'm quite amazed at that as I
>  would have thought that this would be hugely popular!
>
>  Anyway, I'm not looking for anyone to write something like this for
>  me, but I would appreciate knowing if this is possible

Almost certainly. As you say 'store locators' are a common requirement.

> and also a few
>  pointers on where I should be looking to learn how to do this.

The API documentation has a few articles about this with php/mysql.
While that doesn't fit your requirements, maybe can pickup the concept
used.

>
>  Thanks in advance,
>
>  Gary
>
>  >
>


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Barry

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