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I am developing an Estate Agents website. Each property has it’s geolocation code saved in a database. Visitors will want to search for properties in a given location (say a town like “Southampton”). Could Google’s Maps API (web services) help me with this?
I’ve seen this facility provided on other Estate Agent’s website but I don’t know how they do it.
This is basically a standard “store locator” problem — except your “stores” are properties. The user enters their search term, say “Southampton”; you geocode that and then find the targets which are within your chosen distance of that location. There are plenty of examples, including in the documentation: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/articles/phpsqlsearch_v3.html