Datasets – ShowNearBy (SNB)

ShowNearBy
ShowNearby, founded by a group of location fanatics, is positioned as the global organization to define prevalent, location-based services and information for consumers and businesses. Through the group’s capabilities to develop location-specific applications for mobile and web platforms, ShowNearby provides users the avenue to identify locations of persons, points-of-interest, and activities. Thereafter, translate those details into usable data.

Datasets Available

Code Snippet

.NET – How do I access a complete list of ATMs near me

public List<ATMEntry> GetATMFromNimbusSNB(string AccountKey, string UniqueUserID)
    {

        System.Net.WebRequest wr=
          HttpWebRequest.Create(
            "http://api.projectnimbus.org/snbodataservice.svc/ATMSet?Latitude=1.3&Longitude=103.85&Distance=2000");
        wr.Headers.Add("AccountKey",AccountKey);
        wr.Headers.Add("UniqueUserID",UniqueUserID);
        wr.Method = "GET";
        WebResponse res = wr.GetResponse();
        string resStr
         = new System.IO.StreamReader(res.GetResponseStream()).ReadToEnd();

        XNamespace atomNS
          = "http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom";
        XNamespace dNS
          = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices";
        XNamespace mNS
          = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata";

        List<ATMEntry> results
          = (from item in XElement.Parse(resStr).Descendants(atomNS + "entry")
            let atms = item.Element(atomNS + "content").Element(mNS +"properties")
                select new ATMEntry() {
                ATMID = atms.Element(dNS +"ATMID").Value,
                Name = atms.Element(dNS +"Name").Value,
                Lat = atms.Element(dNS + "Latitude").Value,
                Lon = atms.Element(dNS + "Longitude").Value
            }).ToList();

        return results;
    }

Java – How do I access a complete list of ATMs near me

public ArrayList<ATM> getATMSNearMe(String accountKey, String uniqueId) {
  atmList = new ArrayList<ATM>();
  try {
    URL _url = new URL("http://api.projectnimbus.org/snbodataservice.svc/ATMSet?Latitude=1.3&Longitude=103.85&Distance=2000");
    URLConnection _urlConn = _url.openConnection();
    _urlConn.setRequestProperty("accept", "*/*");
    _urlConn.addRequestProperty("AccountKey", accountKey);
    _urlConn.addRequestProperty("UniqueUserID", uniqueId);
    BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(_urlConn.getInputStream()));
    String line = null;
    StringBuilder strBuilder = new StringBuilder();
    while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
      strBuilder.append(line);
      System.out.println(line);
    }
}

String[] IProperties = strBuilder.toString().split("<m:properties>");
    for (String str : IProperties) {
      ATM atm = new ATM();
      atm.setATMID(Utils.getStringBetween(str, "<d:ATMID m:type=\"Edm.Int32\">", "</d:ATMID>"));
      atm.setName(Utils.getStringBetween(str, "<d:Name>", "</d:Name>"));
      atm.setLatitude(Utils.getStringBetween(str, "<d:Latitude m:type=\"Edm.Double\">", "</d:Latitude>"));
      atm.setLongitude(Utils.getStringBetween(str, "<d:Longitude m:type=\"Edm.Double\">", "</d:Longitude>"));
      atmList.add(atm);
      }
    } catch (MalformedURLException ex) {
        ex.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IOException ex) {
        ex.printStackTrace();
    } catch (Exception ex) {
        ex.printStackTrace();
    }
    return atmList;
}

Helpers Available

.NET – C# Proxy Classes: click here | Read this blog post for more information to use these proxy classes.

JAVA – Read this blog post for more information to use JAVA to connect to the data service.

PHP & AJAX – Read this blog post for more information to use PHP/AJAX to connect to the data service.

obj C / xcode – coming soon

Terms of Use

The datasets:

• Are here as a community technology preview for a period of time (TBD).
• Cannot be used in any public offering.
• Are offered as-is with no official support.

Support

None at this time.