The simplest way to describe what I'd like to do is to think of a searchable lists of "stores" in a geographic area that is displayed according to distance from the user's current location. I've had a good look through all of the forums here (as I'm keen to do it natively) but I seem to keep getting drawn towards a HTML5 / PHP solution. In any event, I know I'll need a database in order to store the "stores" location details (and other information) but I'd be interested to know if anyone had done something similar. The user would be presented (in its most simple form) a choice of categories (Pet shops, for instance). When the category is chosen, the user's location would be passed to a database which returns, say, the twenty nearest Pet Shops to them. To do this using the location plugin (and have the results displayed on a map) would be straightforward. What I's like is the return of a list where the user cans elect an entry and that find out more about the particular Pet Store. If anyone does have any pointers, I'd be most grateful.

What you need is the server side to return JSON for the menu, and each option of that menu would point to a different pet shop, say, from a HTML document. I think Smug has published one such example, a combination of JSON, PHP on the server and creating app menus on the fly.

Thanks @Dusko, I'll look into @Smug's example this evening.

And here's a good resource on how to do geopatial queries (find things within a certain distance of your location): https://developers.google.com/maps/articles/geospatial Mark

Thanks @Dusko, where would I be able to find smug's example?

Here is Smug's example: https://www.buzztouch.com/forum/thread.php?tid=72DDF1315258AAF4083312B&fid=0B19EC7C02CBDD92F12FD08&sortColumn=FT.id&sortUpDown=&currentPage=1

Oh thanks @Niraj! & @Dusko. Very helpful.

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