I'm losing some hair over Google's AJAX API currently. What I do is turning structured location data into a Google local search API query in order to give users an alternative result list of places. ex.: http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/local?v=1.0&key=XXX&hl=en_US&mrt=localonly&rsz=large&q=pizza+Neus...
Hi, I would like to issue a local search on Google maps (e.g. list of restaurants for a given location), and I would like to get the (Restaurants data) data back in JSON/XML or other similar format. What's the best way to do it? Thanks! ...
Here is the problem, I have an app with a search bar, the user can input something like "18th Street" or "Starbucks" and it uses the Google Geocoding and Local Search APIs respectively to get results. I'm wondering is there a smart way to determine whether or not a given input string is an address that needs to be Geocoded, or a busines...
My iphone app called Google Local Search(non javascript version) to behave some search business. Below is my code to form a url: NSString *url = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/local?v=1.0&q=%@", keyword]; NSMutableURLRequest *request = [[[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] init] autorelease]; ...
hey guys couple of quick questions 1) In the local search results - we can get a lot of parameters like street title, address, city, state, lat, long , url etc - In order for me to uniquely identify this record - can I consider URL to be unique to this address or concatenation of latitude and longitude Ref: http://code.google.com/apis...
I want my application using Google local search and google maps to give my users the ability to choose from a number of locations when there are a number of possible answers to their query. A good example would be "Overton, UK" - there are lots of places with this name in the country, and the google maps website gives several possible "d...
I have two questions about google maps local search. Here is my code: var options = { onSearchCompleteCallback:function(searcher) { // content of onSearchCompleteCallback function // creates markers and applies addresses to a result list // at this point code isn't necessary, because this function already wor...
Hi, I'm using google map local search api and I'm trying to search and get result from a specific country only. Wonder If anyone have experience about this. ...
Hello, Sorry for the long title, but I had to make it as descriptive as I could. Anyway, let's say I have a map on my site. The map is centered using Google's geocoder. I also have LocalSearch "enabled" on the map. So the map has "markers" for each result returned by the LocalSearch. So my question is, can I make other people add "mar...
Currently I am using the following code: $zipcode = '91762'; $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/local?v=1.0&q=restauraunts+".$zipcode."&rsz=large"); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); ob_start(); curl_exec($ch); $data = ob_get_contents(); ob_end_clean(); curl_close...
So I've been helping a friend update a listing of a local small business on google and also get the business listed in around 20 additional places that Google seems to like to use for reference in the same industry. The problem is that it's been about 3 weeks and no new citations have shown up. I know Google can take up to 90 days to re...