hi i'm building a ruby on rails site with a database of local businesses and reviews. as part of the functionality, i want users to be able to add new businesses themselves, in addition to adding reviews of specific businesses.
as i'm new to web design, i really need some general guidance. should i 1) attempt to build my own local database of businesses complete with name, address, url data, or 2) can i somehow just tap in to google's database of local businesses and relate my review tables to these results? if the best route to go is with (1), how should i make it simple for the user to add a business to my database? since the user presumably doesn't know the exact address etc, can i integrate google maps so they can search google for the business name and then have google return the rest of the data to populate my database? general guidance much appreciated. are there any good rails -specific guides you could point me to? thanks b -- 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.
