Does anyone know the proper way to search for nearby businesses in your own application? I'll cover several things I've tried below, but they either don't work or require a lot of extra code.
GeoCoder#getFromLocationName works for specific place queries like "white house". It returns nothing for something like "restaurant near boston", however. I tested on both my T-Mobile G1 and in the 1.5_r3 SDK emulator. The blog specifically says it can be used to "search for businesses", however: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/02/android-sdk-m5-rc14-now-available.html There is a related issue in the tracker, but it's been marked released with no comment: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1537 Giving up on GeoCoder, sending an ACTION_VIEW Intent with a "geo:0,0? q=restaurant+near+boston" URI works great for the built in Maps application, but sending it to my own subclass of MapActivity just shows the default map you see when starting it normally. Using an HttpURLConnection to "http://maps.google.com/?q=restaurant +near+boston&output=kml" would get me the data, but then requires writing a KML parser and calculating distances on my own. Anyone have any advice? Thanks, Lance Nanek --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
