Re: [PHP] Finding an Address

[email protected] (Tedd Sperling)
Newsgroups php.general
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On Feb 28, 2013, at 12:36 PM, Floyd Resler <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have a project where my client would like to find the nearest street address from where he current is.  Getting the longitude and latitude is easy enough but I'm having a hard time finding out how to get the nearest house.  I have found a lot of solutions for addresses maintained in a database but these addresses won't be in a database.  I thought about just querying Google for each longitude and latitude within in a small circle but my math skills are nowhere near good enough to accomplish that.  Anyone have any ideas?
> 
> Thanks!
> Floyd

What about using zip codes?

Like so:

http://php1.net/a/zipcode/

Cheers,

tedd


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