how to get the similar city

Question

i have a city ALMA but it can be more then 5 in the whole world so user can be confused. how i can show the all place who have a word ALMA in their location.

i want to get all city name who have word ALMA. are any api can give me all city , county name match to my name ALMA.

if i can use GMAP API [google] then how i can retrieve all city name who have word "ALMA"

Answer 1

take a look at Yahoo PlaceFinder API ... That should help you out. If you suffix a near by location to the city name as in district etc it will help you drill down to the one you want. http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/placefinder/