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Old 12-07-2008, 10:11 AM  
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Originally Posted by rowan View Post
Yep, I know about matching up nearby localities, do it with my photo website... I'm just curious where you got the loc db from?
Gotcha. But I can't give away all my things though, some things have gotta remain a trade secret

There are online lookups, like terraserver.net (free), and Microsoft's Mapthingy (paid) that can be used. I just fancied a home-grown one and so went the *very* long route.

see
http://www.geoplugin.com/webservices/extras

I was going to open it up to allow for radius changes, but the cpu spikes if some tit puts in a massive radius, so I left it at default 10miles.
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