This is quite a bit later, so I'm sorry to resurrect, but it looks like Local Search isn't really what I want. That adds a search control box to the map, but I want the searching to be done behind the scenes, because the locations aren't the data that will eventually be displayed. What I want is something that will (for example) look for the closest bus station to X and the closest bus station to Y, and give directions to and from those stations. It will also do some other things to that data.
-A.. Wilson On Jul 30, 4:32 pm, aawilson <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks a bundle, I'll check that out. > > On Jul 30, 1:43 pm, Barry Hunter <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I admitg dont fully understand your question. But it looks like you > > looking the the Local Search > > APIhttp://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/local.html > > > 2009/7/30 aawilson <[email protected]>: > > > > Suppose I were developing an application that looks for a specific > > > type of place (for example, all bus stations near some address). Is > > > there some sort of standard format for the return results of a google > > > maps search for the locations of a type of location, or is there a tag > > > that is used to describe what a location is to aid finding these in an > > > automated fashion? I could implement a system that parses for likely > > > results, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel, if such a thing > > > already exists. > > > > Regards, > > > A. Wilson > > > -- > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
