finding stores near an address.

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4 total messages Started by c. sarabi Fri, 31 Dec 1999 00:00

Author: c. sarabi
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 00:00

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how do I put in an address and find all "Chevron" gas stations within 35
miles of that address?  Of course there is a database containing all
"Chevron" gas stations and their respective addresses.  (being implemented
in a web site)
thanks.
c.

Re: finding stores near an address.

Author: Eric Petroelje
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 00:00

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Umm.. I don't think you can, if all you know is the address.  You could do
it if you had exact latitude / longitude information though

c. sarabi <sarabi@home.com> wrote in message
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> how do I put in an address and find all "Chevron" gas stations within 35
> miles of that address?  Of course there is a database containing all
> "Chevron" gas stations and their respective addresses.  (being implemented
> in a web site)
> thanks.
> c.
>
>

Re: finding stores near an address.

Author: H. McDaniel
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 00:00

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Eric Petroelje wrote:
> 
> Umm.. I don't think you can, if all you know is the address.  You could do
> it if you had exact latitude / longitude information though

See www.mapquest.com!

All of the data for converting an address in a city to a lattitude and
longitude already exist. Probably more than one company has gone through
the trouble of creating city specific rules for converting the address
to a reasonable aproximate coordinate location, though I imagine that
they'd have blind spots when you get too far outside of the major urban
areas though.

Option #2: pay me $100,000 and I'll get the ball rolling on writing some
custom software to do what you want. Half now, half later of course.

-McDaniel

Re: finding stores near an address.

Author: Otis Viles
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 00:00

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On Wed, 05 Jan 2000 04:11:48 +0800, "H. McDaniel" <haji@wolfenet.com> wrote:
>All of the data for converting an address in a city to a lattitude and
>longitude already exist. Probably more than one company has gone through
>the trouble of creating city specific rules for converting the address
>to a reasonable aproximate coordinate location, though I imagine that
>they'd have blind spots when you get too far outside of the major urban
>areas though.

Vicinity Corporation (www.vicinity.com) performs geocoding of most addresses
in the United States and Canada and has a tool for helping you find the
an approximate latitude and longitude when they can't code it.
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