Tuesday, June 3, 2014
On Tuesday, June 3, 2014 1:36:40 PM UTC-5, Colin Law wrote:
On 3 June 2014 19:29, James Davis, PhD <james.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tuesday, June 3, 2014 12:35:51 PM UTC-5, Colin Law wrote:
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>> On 3 June 2014 17:28, James Davis, PhD <james.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > WD, Thanks for the reply. I am familiar with geocoder and use it
>> > already
>> > but it only helps for service providers already in my database. I am
>> > looking for a solution that essentially allows me to externalize the
>> > storage
>> > of heathcare provider information (anything from dentists to massage
>> > therapists).
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>> What does 'externalize the storage of ...' mean? I thought you wanted
>> to store it in the db.
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>> Colin
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> Good question, sorry if it was not clear. I want to capture which service
> providers a user selects. I do not want to maintain a list of all
> healthcare providers in the US for the user to select from.
OK, so you are looking for an external source of all healthcare
providers in the US along with their locations. Can't help there I am
afraid.
Colin
Not true. The information is there in the form of 'locations' or 'places' via Google or some other mapping service. Suppose you wanted to show users a list of their local pizza restaurants. Instead of trying to build and maintaining a table containing every pizza restaurant in the country, just use a mapping service that allows them to select the restaurant. All I want to capture/maintain is which one the user selects.
Now take the above example and replace 'pizza restaurant' with 'physician' or 'dentist'. That is what I want to do. The options come from the mapping service and I only capture the selection....essentially externalizing the healthcare_provider table.
Excellent feedback. Thanks Colin & Walter.
So my original question was which mapping service might work best for doing this?
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