Step 1 ------ To use this project, feed the location.mysql to your database. If your site is using a prefix for database table names, make sure to adjust accordingly. mysql -u username -ppassword -h localhost database-name < modules/location/location.mysql where "username", "password" are the username/loging and "database-name" are the parameters to login to your Drupal site's database. You can leave out "-h localhost" if your MySQL server runs on the same site as your Apache. However, replace 'localhost' in "-h localhost" if your MySQL server is on a different machine. IMPORTANT: To support proximity searches and most useful features, you will need a postal codes database for each country for which you plan to use a file from the "supported/" directory. The database structure can be loaded from the database/zipcodes.mysql file, and the data can be loaded from database/zipcodes.CC.mysql (where CC is the two-letter country code). As of this post, only U.S. and German postal codes are supported. A single zipcodes table holds all the zipcodes. To create the zipcodes table using the database/zipcodes.mysql file from within the location tarball: mysql -u username -ppassword -h localhost database-name < modules/location/database/zipcodes.mysql To make use of the U.S. postalcodes: mysql -u username -ppassword -h localhost database-name < modules/location/database/zipcodes.us.mysql To make use of the German postal codes: mysql -u username -ppassword -h localhoost database-name < modules/location/database/zipcodes.de.mysql Feed these dumps to your database as well, adjusting for prefixes. Careful, the postal code dump for the US is a few MB. Step 2 ------ In the "modules/" directory, create a subdirectory called "location/" which itself contains a subdirectory called "supported/". Download "location.inc" to "modules/location/" Download "location.module" to "modules/location/" Download "earth.inc" to "modules/location/" Download "supported/location.us.inc" to "modules/location/supported/" (for support of US locations) Step 3 ------ Enable the location module on your site. Visit the settings page for location.module and enable features for U.S. (the only option as of now). Finally, go to the default workflow settings for each node type and enable (or require location collection on a field-by-field basis... it is encouraged that you enable postal codes and country fields for node types for which you want to enable proximity searches.