> Hi all, > > I need to implement "Find all hospitals in a 5 mile radius". Say I have all > the coordinates on them stored in a table with the fields longitude and > latitude. Has anybody some sample code for that? > > Best regards, > Chris >
Here's a plpgsql function that will do what you need. You might also look at the earthdistance code in contrib if you'd rather have a C function. HTH, Joe
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