Brice Hartmann wrote a very good tutorial on how to build a simple USA Neighborhood Finder application with Laravel 5.

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Demo

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Source Code

https://github.com/bricehartmann/laravel-neighborhood-finder

Tutorial

https://medium.com/@brice_hartmann/getting-started-with-geospatial-data-in-laravel-94502dc74d55