Re: Q: Nearest Post Office Problem - Any leads?????
From: Jim Ward <jfw_at_radix.net>
Date: 1995/12/16
Message-ID: <4aujls$icr_at_news1.radix.net>#1/1
Date: 1995/12/16
Message-ID: <4aujls$icr_at_news1.radix.net>#1/1
fignet05.chrisa_at_eds.com (Chris Arterburn) wrote:
>In article <49mq2r$fd2_at_gaia.cc.gatech.edu>, badri_at_cc.gatech.edu says...
>
>>Given a zipcode, I should show the nearest postoffice. Assume that
>>some zipcodes do not have post offices and so I will have to calcualate
>>the distance between a zipcode and all postoffices nearby to get the
>>closest. One way I think is to get the geographical distance using the
>>earth's radius of curvature, latitude and longitude, etc.
From what database are you going to get the lat/longs of all the post offices? Received on Sat Dec 16 1995 - 00:00:00 CET