How To Use the Yahoo Geocoding API in PHP

...from Jeremy Zawodny's blog and GeoCool

[Robert Charlton]

I just tripped over this on Jeremy Zawodny's blog, and, though I'm not a programmer, I'm thinking that this would be of great interest to many in the Local forum.

Here's the article Jeremy links to. I trust it's OK to post the link...

[toys.lerdorf.com...]

There is of course the fancy new maps.yahoo.com/beta site which is fun, but as far as I am concerned the killer app here is the geocoding platform that drives this. And it is completely accessible for anyone to use. It's also a sane API that anybody can figure out in minutes. Here are a few tips for using this API from PHP 5.

[JeremyL]

I definitally have some plans for this. Very nice.