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Re: locating cities within a radius of another

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On 07/21/2010 06:01 AM, Geoffrey wrote:
> We need to locate all cities within a certain distance of a single city.
>  We have longitude and latitude data for all cities.  I was thinking
> postGIS was a viable solution, but I don't see a way to use our existing
> data via postGIS.
> 
> Is postGIS a viable solution, or should I be looking at a different
> approach?  Thanks for any suggestions or RTFM pointers.

If you want something simple, and not requiring PostGIS, but plpgsql
instead, see:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-sql/2003-12/msg00193.php

HTH,

Joe

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