Hi Caro,
Thanks for contacting us!
In advance we would like to know if the “near search” functinality works with German cities ans ZIP-Codes as well.
Yes, it should. A lot of this functionality can actually be credited to Google’s Geolocation API (which is used to transform addresses and post codes to actual coordinates) so as long as you find postcodes and city names work well when you use Google Maps within Germany I’d imagine there would be no problem.
Additionally we would like to ask what is the standard distance of the near-function and if there is a possibility of changing the default value?
By default it is set to 25 miles, however this can be changed to any other number (and is also designed to work in kilometres, not just miles).