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http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/local.html 2009/10/29 ViJay <[email protected]>: > > In our application, we need to allow Users to find a point of interest > from which we need to extract the geocodes. Using the geocodes of the > POI, our application will show a google map with the POI and nearest > locations from a local database (which has addresses already > geocoded). > > My question is this, is there a Google POI search that will return POI > matches with their respective geocodes? If we use the geocoder, then > the User must type in the exact address e.g. If I search for "London > Victoria Station" I get no results. I need to type "London Victoria > Mainline Station" to get the POI and its geocode. > > What we ideally need is a local search like GoogleBar but which > returns the POI matches and their geocodes only. In the example > below, "London Victoria Station" works perfectly. Can we use this to > extract the geocodes but without using the map? > > http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/examples/control-googlebar.html > > Many thanks, > > ViJay > > > > -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
