Hi Nero- There is an HTTP interface for the Local Search API: http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/documentation/reference.html#_intro_fonje
Please read the terms for the search API to make sure your usage is in line with it, however. - pamela On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Nerolabs <[email protected]> wrote: > > All -- > > Geocoding was one of the services google open to a "permissible" > direct HTTP call. For instance, I can make this call: > > http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=47.559320,-122.384038&output=json&oe=utf8&sensor=true_or_false&key=your_api_key > > Which will return the (reverse) geocoded address information, and this > a google endorsed method for obtaining geocoded information (10,000 > requests per IP per day, or upgrade to an Enterprise account). > > However, I can't find a way to do a Google Local Search that is > endorsed by google other than using the AJAX API. I'm looking for > anybody that can point me to anything google might have to say about > using a call like this: > > http://www.google.com/uds/GlocalSearch?context=0&lstkp=0&rsz=large&hl=en&source=gsc&gss=.com&sig=a0b55a4b9e910e1bfef2fa118cdda19b&q=coffee%20near%204000-4098%20SW%20Edmunds%20St%2C%20Seattle%2C%20WA%2098116%2C%20USA&sll=47.641202,-122.129601&sspn=undefined,undefined&gll=47609439,-122161364,47672964,-122097839&llsep=500,500&key=ABQIAAAA1XbMiDxx_BTCY2_FkPh06RRaGTYH6UMl8mADNa0YKuWNNa8VNxQEerTAUcfkyrr6OwBovxn7TDAH5Q&v=1.0 > > This returns a list of coffee places near an address in Seattle, which > my program will cache, and use for a mashup I'm working on. I have to > use the HTTP method because the mashup includes an iPhone component > (where the GPS coords are established), which is passed to a server, > which does the actual process, so using JavaScript is out of the > question. Using an HTTP call is what I need to do, but for local > search, I'm not sure if Google will support these type of direct HTTP > calls? > > Anybody with any insight here, it would be MORE than welcome! > > Nero > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" 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/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
