Google provides a fairly simple interface for local searches.
http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/documentation/#fonje In the search request you can specify a latitude and longitude with the text to get a reference to those nearby businesses. Here is the reference to the parameters for the search. http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/documentation/reference.html#_fonje_local You can simply make a http call and parse the json response when it comes back. It should be straight forward from there. Thanks, John On Jan 17, 8:00 pm, sunny <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Folks, > wondering if any of you can help. > This is what I am trying to do: > simple app to get list of addresses I am interested in based on my current > location. > > I get the current location using location services. Now, based on this > current location I want to do a search on business places without really > using the SearchManager's triggerSearch. The problem with the triggerSearch > is that it launches the googlemap and show the business address I am > looking for and it is blocked. I want to get the control back. I do not > want to launch the map with the listing. all I want to do is the get the > Geopoint of the business address I am interested in using a simple web > search. I tried reverseGeocoding , but it is does not work with business > address. It needs full address. any suggestion?. > > Simply put, all I want to do is a simple websearch , say query="whole foods, > los gatos, CA" to get its full address. and then use it to get the GeoPoint. > > I am stuck and wondering if anyone can give me some pointers. > > thanks a ton in advance. > Sunny.
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