Finding closest location (selected from list) to a given address

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I need to find the closest location from a user's address to the list of other users' addresses which is selected from the database. How can I do that?

user's address: Via dei Fori Imperiali 00186 Roma Italia

list of addresses: 1)Via Alessandrina 00186 Roma Italia

2)Via XXXXXXX XXXXX Milano Italia

RETURN 1, which is the closest address to user's address

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:26

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Unless you have a record of latitude & longitude equivalents for all the postcodes in the country(ies) you will be dealing with, you'll have to use the Google Maps API.

Have a look here: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/distancematrix/

Example URL and output here: Calculate Distance Between Two Postcodes in php

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