Factual (my shop) provides those attributes for 27 countries. The caveat is that price range and hours of operation are limited at the mo.
We give developers with data drops (zipped csv) in their entirety for free, and have a Places API like everyone else on the planet. Ping me off-list if interested in deets. Plugtastic, -Tyler On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:23 PM, 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
