Finding Business Listings and Displaying with MapKit – Part 1

In this three part series, I want to show you how you can easily show a user business listings based on their current location. To do so we’ll be using the CoreLocation and MapKit Frameworks. First, we need a way to actually find nearby businesses. There are a number of third-party mapping API’s out there, some with paid subscription, but for a simpler application there is a simpler solution. For the first part in this series we are going to connect to the Google Maps service directly and retrieve xml output with which we will later use to populate MapKit. First, let’s take a look at the actual Google Maps call. It will look something like this:In this three part series, I want to show you h