Can Someone Find Your Exact Location From a Website?

How can I allow my customers to find the closest location by entering a postal code?

• I want to add a feature to my site to allow someone to enter their postal code, and the closest location where they can find a sub-distributor is found. Are there any pre-made scripts, links, web pages, etc.. for this? I tried creating a custom Google Map with all the locations, but using this technique, the customer have to choose which location they want directions to. I would prefer if the closest location to them was automatically chosen. I would need for this to be a pre-made script or maybe a website that provides this service because I do not have the knowledge to program this myself.

• Answer:

  I'm not sure of a pre-made script, you might be able to get a freelance coder to implement it with an couple of hours work, you can find them on elane, rentacoder, odesk, etc, here is a Google tutorial on just what you are looking for: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/articles/phpsqlsearch.html Here;s a bit of code to just find the closet one on your existing google map: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4057665/google-maps-api-v3-find-nearest-markers A search for: google map api closest location, should bring up more. It's possible that you might have to employ a 3rd party service for postal code to Longitude-Latatitude, I see Google have the capability in their own maps suystem, not sure if it's in the public API.