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Asked: 2026-05-19T22:41:05+00:00

I bascially want to create a search in our Sales Orders database to find

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I bascially want to create a search in our Sales Orders database to find items that where shipped within a range of a particular address.

I can’t use Google’s API because:
It will be a report and there is no way to display a Map at runtime, which violates the terms of service.
Google limits you to 1,600 requests a day, so comparing and arbitrary address to all our sales orders would violate that before 1 search completed.
I imagine running the directions API to compare the address to each order in our database would take forever.

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  1. Editorial Team

    A lot of this will depend on the precision and exactly what you want to do.

    For example, if you want Line of Sight calculations, you can use a service like this one http://geocoder.us/ to get the Latitude and Longitude of each address, from this you can do a simple calculation to get the “as the crow flies” distance between this point and another.

    if you want true driving direction distance, that will be much more complicated.

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