By Oestee on

i want to be able to search for locations whit in a area as the search by location is today, but i would rather use city or street names. Is it possible to do this by using of the location.module or do i have to use something else??

i would bee happy to know if someone else had the same question and how you solved it.

// Oestee

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nevets’s picture

nevets commented

If I was implementing this I would use google to geocodethe "address" into a latitude and longitude and use that to do a proximity search against locations in your database. Note locations proximity search searchs against the zipcode table, not the location table.

I have played with the first part (geocoding the address) and have a function that does a proximity search using latitude and longitude against the locatiion table.

Oestee’s picture

Oestee commented

Do you think that it is possible to use the gmapmodule to do the geocoding of the address and then use it for a proximity search.

nevets’s picture

nevets commented

I think the gmap module display maps and am not aware of it providing geocoding (done by location module) or proximity search (location module claims to do this).

designwork’s picture

designwork commented

Hi Oestee

I´m working on a different search, waht you wanna search for? Only zipcode?

Dirk

Oestee’s picture

Oestee commented

i want mu users to be able to search for something in optional radius from a pre specified adress. like on http://www.zvents.com/

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mikepetersonwi commented

Tracking

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Zoologico commented

Tracking.