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Latitude Longitude Finder

Is there some type of pre existing PHP app that I can include on my site that will allow a user to enter a street address, city, state, zip etc and then get the lattiude and longitude of that address?

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My page records address, city, etc. and writes it to a database. Is there code I can add to the write process that will add lattitude and longitude points to the database by using the data that the user inputs?

Tomeeboy

Hm... that's kind of a complex thing to add to a web site, or at least I would think so. You could look into Google Maps, but I don't think they support the actual conversion to latitude/longitude:
http://www.google.com/apis/

There's is a site called Geocoder that has an available web service that you can subscribe to for getting regular coordinates from mailing addresses:
http://geocoder.us/

Other sites that give latitude/longitude, but may not have any kind of developer options:
http://www.hmssurprise.org/Resources/whereami.html

Hope that helps ;)

Larry Vollmer

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Tomee,
I am learning that this is a real pain, and something that a lot of developers are looking for.

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Larry Vollmer

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I have really lucked out. Turns out the data I am using has a seperate table with a unique key that links lat's and long's.

Thanks for the help!