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Google Maps – Geofence a route

I’m looking at implementing a PHP based application, where by you have a certain route for example London to Edinburgh. Along this route, I want to calculate say a 10mi Radius or Polygon around the whole route/driving directions, check whether certain defined points/lat-lon’s are within this radius. If so – Add them to the waypoint list, re-calculate the route and re-generate the driving directions.

Issues to be considered while loading jQuery?

I have seen many answers in SO regarding using Google’s CDN to load jQuery instead of
loading it from the local server. In essence I understand this is the issue related with decreased latency, better caching. But I want to know the technical answer, perhaps an example mentioning why it is even an issue to just load a 30KB file. We see nowadays websites with rich multimedia features which do significant download from server, so in such light does this file size make any difference?

Choosing how to approach Geocoding Requests

I am about to begin writing a program in c# that will read Addresses from a source file create a Geocoding request, sent it to Google Maps API, get the response choose the coordinates from the xml and then store them in a database.