Can Bing or GMaps API do a "find my nearest" style search using a supplied XML/RSS collection?

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Published on 2010-03-09T17:29:30Z Indexed on 2010/04/14 13:03 UTC
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Can either Bing or Google Maps allow you to pass in a collection of points and then interrogate that collection to only plot the X nearest points?

I am asking because it may be difficult to pre-filter this data and would be much simpler to supply the entire list and filter it within the API itself.

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