That's a pretty cool idea. Without thinking about if for more than 5 seconds, I'll hazard that it'd probably be fairly easy to whip this up using google maps:
http://www.google.com/apis/maps/ Bryan On 9/1/05, Arthur Westover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was thinking it would be nice to develop an > application that would allow someone to quickly tell > who lives close to whom in a ward. > > This would be useful for hometeaching and visiting > teaching assignments, esp. with the rising costs of > transportation. While this might not be a big deal in > areas with high Mormon population densities, it does > play a role in other areas where members of a ward can > be spread out over many miles. > > So the way I would envision it is that the program > first creates a database with all families. Then > using a utility (example --> > http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/convert?form=address ) > is able to assign a GPS location to each house based > on the address. Then when the user calls upon a name, > you could see how many families lived within a > specified radius. > > I have zero programming experience, so I'm afraid I > can do no more than suggest this idea and participate > in testing. I take that back. I did a semester of > fortran some 15 years ago, but I don't think that > counts. :) > > Arthur > _______________________________________________ > Ldsoss mailing list > Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org > http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss > _______________________________________________ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
