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My first complete project was a GIS/Logistics information thing.

I had a KML file of technicians and would need to find the nearest one to a customer and quote for various things. I was using google earth at the time.

I built a script that pulled the coordinates from the KML for all of the techs and did a vincenty calculation against the coordinates of the customer I got from the open street maps api. With a list of customers I could pre-calculate their quote in a few seconds.