Question

This is my first individual project in android. It is a place locator kind of application. I need to search specific places (for e.g the clothing shops) in the certain radius (like 5 km ) of the current location. I am in the initial stage and not getting any idea about the database.

Is it possible to find the specific places without my own data or do I need to create a database or xml which will contain the list of addresses?

Answer 1

Try reading this:

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/places/

To get an long and lat from an address you can read on this:

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/geocoding/