Posted by Jim Moseby on 10/29/57 11:32
>
> I'm helping a friend of mine build a matchmaking website, and
> we have a
> doozy of a problem to solve:
>
> What I need to do is two fold:
>
> #1 Collect whatever geographical information I need from each
> user to enable
> #2
> #2 Be able to run query's to find people NEAR (geographically) another
> person.
>
> Does anyone know of any commercial or free implementations of
> this? Is it
> primarily a database problem or is their some way (computationally) to
> compute the probable proximity of two zip codes?
>
> Hopefully someone responds to this with a Pear package that
> does exactly
> what I need! :) If that can't happen, then I'd appreciate any
> options you
> can think of.
>
http://sniptools.com/latitudeLongitude.php
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