On Oct 11, 12:54 am, GoldenJoe <[email protected]> wrote: > Ah, that's no good. What I'm trying to do is search through a large > area (like a state or country), and record the all the addresses of a > type of business (for example, all Starbucks).
Notice that the terms of the Google Search API do not allow you to store results. What you want to do amounts to scraping Google's database. http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/terms.html 1.4 Appropriate Conduct and Prohibited Uses. You will not, and will not permit users or other third parties to: ... -- Copy, store, archive, republish, or create a database of Google Search Results, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly -- Marcelo - http://maps.forum.nu -- > It would have been > nice if I could have specified a search area, like a certain range of > latitude and longitude, so as to avoid double entries, but I guess > I'll just have to search around incremental coordinates and run an > algorithm to delete doubles. Thanks anyway. > > Joe > > On Oct 10, 6:06 pm, Barry Hunter <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The localsearch api doesnt have that capability*, but you could > > implement it yourself in javascript, by post filtering the results > > > eg this has code for checking if a point is in a > > polygonhttp://econym.org.uk/gmap/epoly.htm > > > * although you can get close to a rectangle, using the sll/sspn parameter. > > > 2009/10/10 GoldenJoe <[email protected]>: > > > > Hey, guys. > > > > I was wondering if there's a way to perform a localSearch within a > > > polygon, like a rectangle, for example. I know you can overlay > > > polygons on maps and such, but I just want to get a result set from > > > within those boundaries. > > > > Thanks, > > > Joseph > > > -- > > Barry > > > -www.nearby.org.uk-www.geograph.org.uk- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
