Topic awaiting preservation: Quick and Dirty Driving Distances (Page 1 of 1)

I am looking to write a program to map driving distances.

I have a location and I would like to display a polygon outlining a driving distance from the location.

I do not actually need the graphing on a map part, I would really just be interested in generating a list of addresses that are a given distance from the location.

Does anyone know what it would involve to be able to do this?

The google maps API looks like it has a lot of the information I would want to work with, however it might be a bit much to ask it to walk a list of say 10,000+ addresses to draw a map. That task might be better off line.

I am just not sure where to start with this.

Thanks,

Dan
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I ended up spending a little time with google maps and it is not going to be too difficult to make it do what I need.

It requires a bit more user interaction, such as clicking on points to test, but it works pretty well for my purpose of getting quick and dirty data.

The API that google maps provides is pretty easy to work with, I would recommend checking it out if you haven't yet.

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/reference.html

Thanks,

Dan
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