Search database by postcode

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IS it possible to search the database i created by postcode in order to find the nearest person within the database? Thanks for your help

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Hi Christian,

currently this is not really doable with Wix Data. As postcode databases are usually very large and tend to change, this kind of functionality usually relies on using external service to provide it. You could consider few options:

  1. If you have a reasonable number of user postcode, you could use external service to check distances between postcodes or get postcode locations and calculate the distance between the distance that interests you.

  2. If you only care about reasonable distance between postcodes, you could use an external service to fetch nearby postcodes and see if you have any users matching any of the nearby postcodes.