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How to use Google Maps to search my own location data (Same functionality as Places search API, but for my own "places")

See related question: google maps custom local search / search control I know I can create Custom Locations and Information Windows in a Google Map e.g. http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground/#info_windows_sharing_v3 And I understand that Local…
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Google maps custom local search / search control

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…
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More than 7 results for Google local search?

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,…
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Google Location API vs. Maps: Why are identical queries yielding different results?

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…
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Google Local Search API

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…
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Smart ways to determine if a search request is an address or a business for use in Google APIS?

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…
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google local search results in XML/JSON format

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!
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Google Local Search and Markers

I'm following the code located at this page: http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground/#localsearch_with_markers the search the demo shows is: // Execute an initial search searchControl.execute('pizza'); How can I get it to search more than one…
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How to get auto complete search location results as GMSPlaces instead of GMSAutocompletePrediction with Google place API in iOS?

Actually, I get the corresponding response as in the form of GMSAutoCompletepredictions for my auto completion location search request with Google API. With the prediction results, we didn't get more detail info like coordinates, formatted detail…
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Forcing google to give "did you mean" options when using maps/localsearch API

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…
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How schema markup can be helpful for mobile app website?

I want to implement schema markup for a mobile app website. I read schema.org/MobileApplication, but there are lot of properties. I am not getting which property are useful to give more effective output for local search?
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google local search or maybe some other api

im trying to implement local search api, to retreive data for shops and other things from local search, but on demo it shows me 4 pages of result only and for more, it shows a link to result page, which goes to google website, i was wondering if i…
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Google Places Library Replacement for google.maps.LocalSearch()

Now that the Google Local Search API has been deprecated, is there a functional equivalent of google.maps.LocalSearch() in the Google Maps JavaScript Places Library? Specifically, I have a map on my website and within the map I placed a LocalSearch…
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Bing local search listing information?

I read the Bing documentation but can't find a way to query Bing for local listing information such as name, address, phone, website, claimed or not, number of reviews and some snippets, and images associated with the listing if any, etc. Is there…
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Google Local Search API + Python

I am trying to crate a program (in python) that will output query Google’s Local Search and print results to the console. I want to be able to search for “café in London” and get the company names addresses and phone number printed on screen. I…
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