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by Matt Petrowsky

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The world we live in, compared to the one I experienced growing up, is simply amazing. I'm personally looking forward to the inevitable questions of "What's a phone book Daddy?" and "How did a card catalog work?" - if only to feel like an idiot for not realizing that cell phones have always existed and I should've known that "fact".

When it comes to using a map, I'm wondering when they'll stop printing them on paper. Seriously, the ability to know where you're at using GPS and real-time digital maps, to see where you're going and enjoy street level views of other countries without having ever stepped in that country is, well, just awesome.

Which means there's no reason not to integrate these features into your FileMaker solutions.

At the most basic level, we often have the need to perform easy lookups for address verifications. This can be done manually, or at the point the address is captured. The trick with these types of wiz-bang features is that you need the data to perform the lookup against.

Having created many solutions which use geo location based data, I've created a video which highlights both a resource for comprehensive GeoLocation data, including lat/long, postal/province codes and other valuable information, along with information about using and updating this type of valuable resource. If your database adventures ever bring you to the point of needing to interact with Geo Location Data then this video will surely delight you.