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Questions tagged [simplegeo]
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Partial keyword searching in Geo APIs
I've been using SimpleGeo for doing some of my place data queries for a location-based app I'm building. They currently use Factual's data set. From what I can tell, there is no way to do partial text queries on place data, probably because of…

Josh Smith
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Simple JQuery getJSON is not working in IE9
I am trying to read in the category list from SimpleGeo... my code works fine in Chrome and FireFox, but fails in IE.
$.getJSON("http://api.simplegeo.com/1.0/features/categories.json",function(json){
sgCategories = json;
});
Looking at a…

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API to find local business/place using phone number
Looking for an API that will give me a venue/place/local business based on a phone number as input. I checked out the google place/foursquare/simple geo API's but they don't seem to have this functionality. Any ideas?

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SimpleGeo Polymaps total noob LineString displaying as polygons question?
So I'm trying out polymaps as a beginner, adapting the midnight commander example:
var po = org.polymaps;
var map = po.map()
.container(document.getElementById("map").appendChild(po.svg("svg")))
.add(po.interact())
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How to get Place Details Responses from Google Place API or SimpleGeo in chinese?
I am using SimpleGeo for business places for my iPhone,
simply
The Flow is
iPhone --> PHP page --> --> SimpleGeo server.
SimpleGeo Server response --> PHP page --> iPhone.
when Language of my iPhone is Chinese, then I want return data from…

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Help with SimpleGeo Javascript SDK
I'm new to Javascript and I'm trying to eventually make something that will get the users location in using the getLocation API with HTML5, and use simpleGeo to get the building of the coordinates.
So far I'm trying to get SimpleGeo working and I…

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Can I load a .csv into Simplegeo Storage?
Is there a straightforward way to load a .csv file into Simplegeo Storage? I don't have great coding skills and I'm trying to get things set up so I can ask a freelancer to create some maps for my app. If someone has existing code to do this I can…

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SimpleGeo - Obtaining the Longitude and Latitude from response
I have the following response in JSON format, but, can't seem to figure out how to obtain the logitude and latitude from it
I tried
Dim result = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(Of Dictionary(Of String, Object))(response.Content)
but when I try to…

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Does SimpleGeo provide ZIP code to latitude/longitude mapping?
I'm working with SimpleGeo API and I need to get place's latitude/longitude by ZIP code or city name. I know there is a plenty of questions in SO about getting coordinates by ZIP code, and there are many nice databases for it. But are they something…

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