Is Points of Interest enabled in Google maps?

[Novatel]

Can Points of Interest be found using Google maps?

[pamela (Google Employee)]

Hi Novatel-

There is an AJAX Local Search API that returns businesses:
http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/local.html

- pamela

[Meenakshi Tadepalli]

Thanks Pamela. Also wanted to know if i could combine Reverse Geocoding and Local Search in one application.

[pamela (Google Employee)]

Yes, that shouldn't be an issue. Just combine the reverse geocoding
from our API with the AJAX Local Search API. With the local search
API, you can search near a latitude/longitude coordinate or near an
address.

Reverse geocoding example:
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/v3/examples/geocoding-reverse.html


- pamela