I havent actully used it but have you tried SimpleGeo: http://simplegeo.com/
They have a Places API. On 24 January 2011 20:23, John Pataki <[email protected]> wrote: > I am building a mobile app that will display businesses in your proximity > based on your current geo location. > I need to figure what options there are for having the app consume an API > service for the data. > I've built a proof-of-concept app to pull data from Yahoo's Local Search > database table using YQL. > This has a limit of 20 results and I believe has other usage limits. > The Google Local Search has been recently marked as deprecated and it only > returns 8 results anyway from my testing. > Both of these only allow searching based on a keyword vs specific category > selection. > > I am looking for a data source that will provide comprehensive results for > business categories (i.e. restaurants, etc) and provide info like: > > Longitude/Latitude > Name of business > Address > Category > Price Range > Hours of operation > > Does an API exist out there that allows more than 20 results and is fairly > comprehensive that is recommended? > > > Thanks, > > John > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
