Jehiah (of relative date function fame) now has some information about spatial proximity searching:

This article covers how to search a database via latitude and longitude to find matches based on spatial proximity (or distance). This code is for mysql (also some in python), but it should be easily adaptable to other languages.

The example involves searching based on zip code data. Could come in handy.

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