I'm trying to add a website feature that calculates the distance between two US ZIP codes, then sorts search results by distance. Until today, I had good luck using the Geo::Google module to get the distance--just let Google do the work for me.

Geo::Google is super-easy to use, but I need something that isn't likely to break with every Google Maps API change.

Has anyone dealt with the 'zip code distance' problem recently? If I have to buy the data from USPS, I will, but it'd be far nicer to query a web service and store the results. Geocoder.us (Geo::Coder::US module) doesn't accept ZIP codes by themselves, or I'd happily use that.

--John

In reply to ZIP code distances by jrmtreebeard

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