Question

I have a mobile app where I need try and predictably guess which residential location the user is standing in front of. (Not businesses)

I see the google places api, but it doesn’t look like it does residential?
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/places/#PlaceSearches

I tried searching with a lat an long in a neighborhood, and it brought up all sorts of results that were close by, like parks and schools, but not residential.

Am I missing something? Is there something out there that will let me see what homes are close to a lat,long point?

Answer 1

The Places API probably won’t work for you since it’s querying a databases of places or businesses, not residential addresses. You might want to consider reverse geocoding to the closest address from that point on the map instead: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/geocoding/#ReverseGeocoding