I would like all the zip codes which are within a 5 miles distance of a zip code input by the user.
See you have the centre coordinates for the circle and radius of the circle say 5 miles, now for every cordinate point in database, check the distance between Centre and that point by applying distance formula and check if it is less than radius, In short,
C = point that is the center of the area
P = point we want to check for being inside the area
R = radius of the area
P is inside the area if
||P-C|| <= R
EDIT-
function getDistanceFromLatLonInKm(lat1,lon1,lat2,lon2) {
var R = 6371; // Radius of the earth in km
var dLat = deg2rad(lat2-lat1); // deg2rad below
var dLon = deg2rad(lon2-lon1);
var a =
Math.sin(dLat/2) * Math.sin(dLat/2) +
Math.cos(deg2rad(lat1)) * Math.cos(deg2rad(lat2)) *
Math.sin(dLon/2) * Math.sin(dLon/2)
;
var c = 2 * Math.atan2(Math.sqrt(a), Math.sqrt(1-a));
var d = R * c; // Distance in km
return d;
}
function deg2rad(deg) {
return deg * (Math.PI/180)
}