Check service coverage area by street address

  • My company offers various services within different geographical areas.

    I’d like a potential customer to enter their full street address to determine which service(s) are offered to their home or business address. (Postal code only lookup/validation is not specific enough)

    Ideally on the back end service areas for specific service types could be defined by creating a map point and radius, or by drawing a polygon to represent the coverage area.

    I’ve been searching high and low for this solution, thanks so much in advance.

    • This topic was modified 7 months, 2 weeks ago by fondussen. Reason: Additional details added
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  • Moderator bcworkz

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    If you want to illustrate coverage on a map based on street address input, you would need to first geolocate the address (i.e. convert address to latitude/longitude coordinates). There are a number of API services available to do this. Google Geolocation API is maybe the best known. There is a fee involved for some Google services like this, such as X US dollars per 1000 requests.

    Once a geographic point is known, certain mapping APIs will let you draw a circle or polygon relative to this point. Google’s JavaScript Mapping API will let you do this. Other mapping APIs may or may not accommodate this.

    I’m unaware of any such plugins, but this does not mean none exist. Make a good effort to find something. If nothing suitable can be found, you may need to have this custom coded.

    hi. I’m currently looking for a solution like this. have you progressed there? were you able to find a solution?

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