Hi,

I recently wrote a Map App with the code from: http://www.raywenderlich.com/13160/using-the-google-places-api-with-mapkit (which is a really great tutorial if you want to embed Maps into your apps)

But there is a specific part of the code (below) that does a JSON request for getting info on items around your location (which is limited to Googles 255 types), I want to change this so I can have a user type in a specific name of a restaurant or other item and have google search the area, does anyone know how to change the url "stringWithFormat" below to do this? I think there may be a parameter named "q", but can't figure out the right format.

pragma mark - get Google search data from internet

-(void) queryGooglePlaces: (NSString *) googleType { NSString *url = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/search/json?location=%f,%f&radius=%@&types=%@&sensor=true&key=%@", currentCentre.latitude, currentCentre.longitude, [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%i", currenDist], googleType, @"AIzaSyC8Zz6aLGTro-cDYdtfsP2YramG859AC9A"];

//Formulate the string as a URL object.
NSURL *googleRequestURL=[NSURL URLWithString:url];

// Retrieve the results of the URL.
dispatch_async(kBgQueue, ^{
    NSData* data = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL: googleRequestURL];
    [self performSelectorOnMainThread:@selector(fetchedData:) withObject:data waitUntilDone:YES];
});

}