Postal Code/Locator

[David Mayerlen]

> >  Anybody ever build a store locator? Something along the idea of having a
> > user enter a postal code and then showing them a list of nearby stores?
> >
> >  Any suggestions much appreciated.
> >
> >  I wrote a locator in Perl that worked on a little bit of a drill-down
> > scenario with a few maps that broke down Ontario into regions and gave
> > lists of stores for those regions BUT I'm pulling my hair out trying to
> > find the darn thing!!!
>
> Isn't this matter of grep'ing a file with store addresses?
>

 More than that. Need to compare a user's postal code to the available
store postal codes and determine which ones are sorta nearby.

>

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