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When you say "near" can you choose the radius? Also does their API return a value such as "total results"? If the answer to both are yes then you can be quite
by OmarIsmail 16y ago
When you say "near" can you choose the radius? Also does their API return a value such as "total results"?
If the answer to both are yes then you can be quite strategic in how you make your calls and depending on the max distance could cover North America in under 10K calls which would take less than 2 hours to process.
It would also make for a pretty bitchin visualization.
- alooPotato 16y agoUnfortunately the answer is no and no. Foursquare returns the closest 50 venues, period. Facebook on the other hand is much better. They let you set a radius and a limit to the number of results you want. The limit can be huge, you just have to page through the results (max 500 per page). If you are interested, checkout apigee.com, they have a cool console that lets you experiment with multiple API's. What did you think of the Google Earth visualizations at the bottom of the blog post?