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Besides having to pay a big subscription fee to the post office in the uk to search on post codes...

I want to be able search on UK Cities and certain proximities like 50 mile radius...

Does anyone have any idea how I'd go about this?  Has anyone done this before?

Please help.  Thanks...

Regards and Jesus Christ's blessings,

Chris Cundill
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You can work it out from the cities grid references with a bit of Pythagoras. There are a number of databases about online with postcodes/references for free. Quick search on Google should help you out.
[code]<?php
function distance($na,$ea,$nb,$eb) {
    $dist_n = $na - $nb;
    $dist_e = $ea - $eb;

    $hypot = sqrt(($dist_n * $dist_n) + ($dist_e * $dist_e));
    return "Distance between $na(N) $ea(E) and $nb(N) $eb(E) is: ".round($hypot/1000,2)."kms";
}
?>[/code]
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First you need a database of

location, latitude, longitude.

Once you know where all the places are you can find them with a search. Searching in a square centered on you location is easier than radial distances. So if the bottom left corner of the square is at x1, y1 and top right is at x2, y2 then you search for

SELECT location WHERE long BETWEEN x1 and x2 AND lat BETWEEN y1 AND y2.
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I'm getting somewhere I think...

What Barand said made sense its just his sql statement is not quite what I need.

Would someone be able to elaborate on this to help me understand how to actually return the distance between two points.

Many Thanks.

Regards and Jesus Christ's blessings,

Chris Cundill
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[quote]
You can work it out from the cities grid references with a bit of Pythagoras. There are a number of databases about online with postcodes/references for free. Quick search on Google should help you out./
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postcode database were please cheers.

I googled and there all paid ones were can i get the postcode database free cheers.
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So does that mean that company's and websites using the postcodes for gavering information for orders to pay are useing the royal mail post code service.

nice to know cheers.


So in reality there the ones offering the service to website users with a subcrition of some salt.
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I have a few links here - not sure if it is what you are loking for but here they are:-

http://www.grcdi.nl/linkspc.htm
http://www.evoxfacilities.co.uk/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_postal_districts_in_the_United_Kingdom
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_postal_areas_in_the_United_Kingdom
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_postal_codes
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