For that purpose, you don't really need driving distances, so .distanceFrom() would be appropriate, more efficient and you wouldn't have to worry about GDirections quotas.
If you want to search for possible nearby locations from a large database, then that's exactly the same as writing a Store Locator, except for the way that the results are displayed. http://code.google.com/apis/maps/articles/phpsqlsearch.html -- Mike Williams http://econym.org.uk/gmap -- 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.
