I'm trying to create an application that will display all restaurants within the users location. The location will be obtained from the GPS. The problem I am having is it would be unfathomable to create OverlayItems manually for all the possible restaurants in the United States. Did I look over something in the API? I would think that there might be something like this built in.
I thought the Geocoder would be useful, I could get the coordinates from the addresses of restaurants and write methods to create overlay items out of that information, but I would still be missing information such as restaurant name. I'm just looking for suggestions or ideas.
Thanks everyone!
I would use the SimpleGeo service for getting the restaurant data and then using this class: https://github.com/jgilfelt/android-mapviewballoons to add items to the Google map.
What else are you looking for?