In need of a good business search API similar to Yelp's & Google Places

Hey there -- I've been looking for a reliable, scalable, and accurate location search API. I would use Yelp's API, it is great, but I need to be able to store information, whereas Yelp disallows any of their content to be stored.

I'm currently using SimpleGeo, however I've found that their results can be horribly ordered. I'm considering writing a script to accurately order the results, but I thought I'd first check here if there's any other good alternatives.

I have signed up for a Google Places API key months ago with no response yet, as I've heard this API is flakey if you're not already sign up with it.

Another useful feature of an API I'd like to find is one that contains a thumbnail picture of the location matc开发者_如何学Ch.

My queries will be requested by keyword and location.

Any suggestions? Thanks

I haven't tried it, but Cloudmades "Local Search" might be worth looking at: http://developers.cloudmade.com/projects/show/local-search

The Google Places API was opened up to all developers at Google I/O this week:

http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2011/05/places-everybody-show-is-about-to-begin.html

To get started take a look at the docs:

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

Many thanks,

Thor.