Posted by Manuel Lemos on 10/12/21 11:05

Hello,

on 01/11/2005 05:57 PM Symbulos Partners said the following:
> We would like to implement a geographic search engine.
>
> We have a list of places, the user enters a postcode + a radius in kms and
> the search engine returns a list of places within a certain radius.
>
> Any body has any experience with anything similar?

Here you may find a couple of solutions that search a database of post
codes with coordinates to find which are within the range:

http://www.phpclasses.org/phpziplocator

http://www.phpclasses.org/zipcodesrange

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Regards,
Manuel Lemos

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