From: Daniel Berger <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2005-11-05T03:35:53+09:00
Subject: Re: postal code/zip code distance

Nicholas Van Weerdenburg wrote:
> On 11/4/05, James Britt <james_b@neurogami.com> wrote:
> 
>>Nicholas Van Weerdenburg wrote:
>>
>>>I need to do a store/restaurant locator search from a persons postal code.
>>>
>>>Any suggestions on how to do this in Ruby/Rails? Commercial services
>>>would be a consideration if effective and not too costly.
>>
>>Google Local?
>>
>>James
>>
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> 
> 
> Looking at that now, but it doesn't take postal code only.
> 
> Thanks,
> Nick
> --
> Nicholas Van Weerdenburg
> 
> 

For possible ideas, take a look at 
http://search.cpan.org/~tjmather/Geo-PostalCode-0.06/lib/Geo/PostalCode.pm

Regards,

Dan