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Optimizing a Proximity-based Store Location Search on a Shared Web Host?

What precision do you need? if it’s a state/national wide search maybe you could do a lat-lon to zip lookup and have precomputed distance from zip area to zip area of the restaurant. If you need accurate distances that won’t be a good option. You should look into a Geohash solution, in the Wikipedia article … Read more

How can I implement a location based (zip code) search in WordPress?

I would modify the answer from gabrielk and the linked blog post by using database indexes and minimizing the number of actual distance calculations. If you know the coordinates of the user and you know the maximum distance (say 10km), you can draw a bounding box that is 20km by 20km with the current location … Read more

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