If you have your own database of dropbox locations, then its a 
straightforward Store Locator situation. After obtaining the user's 
location you perform an SQL search on your database and return a modest 
number of the locations to the Javascript to be plotted. Don't try to 
plot 12000 locations simultaneously.

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/articles/phpsqlsearch.html

If you don't have your own database of locations, then after obtaining 
the user's location you can make Local Search calls to the Google AJAX 
Search API. Make separate calls for each business name and merge the 
results into one array.

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

-- 
Mike Williams
http://econym.org.uk/gmap


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