Re: Distance between Zip codes

2005-10-10 Thread SGreen
Member > --- > > > > From: Hank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: Hank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 11:12:10 -0400 > > To: "Steffan A. Cline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Distance between Zip codes

2005-10-09 Thread Steffan A. Cline
lications Lasso Partner Alliance Member --- > From: Hank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Hank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 11:12:10 -0400 > To: "Steffan A. Cline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Re: Distance between Zip codes

2005-10-09 Thread Hank
Don't forget that you're not caclucating "driving distance", but "great circle" distance, which is roughly a straight line over short distances. If you radius is great than, say 50 miles, people might complain that the actual driving distance is much greater than the straight line distance you pro

Re: Distance between Zip codes

2005-10-08 Thread Steffan A. Cline
Ok. I think I have what I need... Almost. Here is the query I settled on: SELECT b.zip, b.state,b.storename, (3956 * (2 * ASIN(SQRT( POWER(SIN(((a.lat-b.lat)*0.017453293)/2),2) + COS(a.lat*0.017453293) * COS(b.lat*0.017453293) *

Re: Distance between Zip codes

2005-10-08 Thread Steffan A. Cline
I saw those and several on finding matches and are close but the problem I ran into is that yeah.. they find all of the zips within the specified radius but I need to the matches that came from another table. Thanks Steffan --- T E L

Re: Distance between Zip codes

2005-10-08 Thread mos
At 05:59 PM 10/8/2005, you wrote: I was wondering if anyone might have a canned query I could use for the following scenario. I need to search for a list of locations within a certain distance of a user given zip code and order them by driving distance calculated from a table of zip codes contai