clanstyles

I can't edit my above post. My best option I see is use Google, Yahoo and Bing's API to grab lat and long then store them in our database. I think this is against their TOS though. I'd like a more "proper" way to do this even if we have to pay.

I was going to do like Cities, just by location.

I don't think that's the full path of the bot. Also ./bigbrotherbot

Thank you guys! So assuming I want to do a radius search based on Address OR City or Zip, i felt that a longitude & latitude search would be best. The reasons I came up with were: Most accurate MySQL can handle doing all the math. I'm not completely sure about this if it's the best way, but.. what do you guys think? Thank you!

I've been developing an application for some time now. It's come to the point to populate the database with accurate information. I've been searching for a list of City, State, Zip, Long & Lat for each. How can I find something like this? I see tons of them for sale, 79 bucks or so, but I don't want to pay. How do most of these people get their data? Thank you