Suggest a public API for nearby amenities?

Question

I'm looking for an API for finding nearby amenities (schools, community centres etc) by latitude/longitude.

Thanks

Answer 1

Have you looked into the google maps api's?

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/

Answer 2

I like YQL

http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/

Answer 3

Foursquare/Gowalla are applications where people submit all kind of places under categories. They have a big database of places.

You may want to take a look at them.

http://groups.google.com/group/foursquare-api/web/api-documentation

http://gowalla.com/api/docs

Answer 4

The OpenStreetMap project has amenity information in a raw format.

Here's the API for the map information.

Here's the API detail page.

Good luck.