Given GPS coordinates, how do I find nearby landmarks or points-of-interest?
- by stackoverflowuser2010
I just bought a Google Nexus One smartphone, and I want to write a small Android application for fun. Suppose I can get my current GPS coordinates, so then how can I programmatically find nearby landmarks or points-of-interest within some radius? Is there an API to get GPS geo-tagged landmarks, like in Google Earth's database?
For example, if I'm in downtown Chicago, my program would point me to all the "tourist" things to visit in that city.
Ideally, it would all run on my smartphone, but if necessary, I can have the smartphone query a webserver, which would then run more queries.