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
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