Google Maps API Business Search

I have been looking through the documentation for the API and not sure if it开发者_运维技巧 is possible to list multiple select stores near the submitted address.

Ultimately something like the following website: http://www.evolutionofsmooth.com/locator/

It seems like they have each location stored in a db but I can't see it that likely since it would be pretty huge to do something like that.

Any ideas?

They probably did store all the shops in a database. They saved the latitude and longitude of each shop. Then they load, via AJAX, all the shops into the google map. Google maps has a tutorial for creating a storelocator.

Google maps api v3 has a function called ClientLocation this can, on base of the IP-address, return the current position of the user viewing the google map. This way the closest shops can be highlighted or put on top of the list.

Hopes this will help!