Hi, I'm trying to implement an application with google maps which supports the following search use-cases:
1) Search for places around a specific *location* (address / district) 2) Search for a specific place by *name* (e.g. "British Museum") 3) Search for places by *category* (e.g. "Indian restaurant") All the place information is stored in our own database and currently the search is location centric and expects an address or district as input. It orders results by distance away from the location entered. That location is determined by querying google maps API which geocodes the location to a point on the map. The problem is that this only supports use-case 1 (location-proximity search). Does anyone have any general advice about how we might implement a search function which can intelligently determine and order results for location/name/category without the user having to select what type of search they are doing? Any help would be hugely appreciated. Thank, David. -- 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.
