I'm trying to get parking places around a venue by using the Google Places API (https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/nearbysearch/json?location=52.364119,4.870929&type=parking&rankby=distance&key=MYKEY.
I get back a results with parkings for cars and also with parking for bikes. I cannot find any difference in de details to make a distinction between both.
On the other hand when I lookup thise places on Google Maps it says that de car-parking is a Parking and the bike-parking is indicated as a Bikeparking.
Anyone knows how to do this?
There is a feature request in the public issue tracker. Please have a look at issue 5260 where this problem was raised.
It looks like Google is working on it, however they don't expose any ETA.
Please star this public issue to add your vote and receive future updates from Google.
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When you search for a restaurant in Google places and go to the business profile (i.e.:
https://plus.google.com/107507038669791289691/about?hl=en) the restaurant has a tag (in this case Mexican Restaurant). But when using the Google places api all I can see is a types list
"types" : [ "restaurant", "food", "establishment" ]
Anyone know if it's possible to get the tag "Mexican Restaurant" somehow?
I know about the supported types (https://developers.google.com/places/documentation/supported_types). It is not super helpful.
I was also working in a project which need to get more details about a place using Google Maps and Google Places APIs, and I really spent many hours trying to find something that can help ( Google Places API, Google Maps API, google+ APIs, ... ) but nothing ... the only things that I found is theses 2 issues ( feature requests ) which I hope that Google will add to their APIs someday :
Issue N° 5260 with 13 stars.
Issue N°7878 with 4 stars.
I hope with this SO question that we get more interested persons to get the feature in a soon future version of Google Map or Google Places APIs.
For the Google Places for Work API, I didn't find any information to confirm or not that it contains such feature, but I don't think so.
Hope that can help.
I think you would probably have to revert to the text search method on the api..
https://developers.google.com/places/documentation/search#TextSearchRequests
So your request would end up looking something like the below, restricted down to a specific area
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/textsearch/json?query=Mexican+Restaurant&sensor=true&location=40.846,-73.938&radius=20&key=yourKeyHere
However this will return all other Mexican restaurants in the area, so if you just want to return the one result I would use the Place Details request instead.
Separate your place types by PIPE symbol "|"
try like this :
String types = "cafe|restaurant|museum" // Listing places only cafes, restaurants and museums.
I'm reading the documentation of GM-APIs, I found the section relative to "Places", but I can't find anything to get the information about the per-hour number of customers for a certain place.
Do you know whenever you search a place on GMaps, there is an indication of the frequency of customers, in that way you can know if the place will be busy or empty.
Is there any way to retrieve that information through Google Maps API?
Currently, there is no available feature in Google Maps API that could get the exact number or the of people in an establishment to determine its busiest time of the day.
However, there is an existing Feature Request in Google Map Platform's Public issue tracker to expose the place's popular times which seems to be related to the feature you are looking for.
Here's the link to that feature request: https://issuetracker.google.com/35827350. You can star/favorite this feature request and feel free to leave a comment there regarding your use case for additional information as well.
I wanted to use Google Places API to get nearby places (music venues, pubs, theaters, etc.) in given city, then look for events in these places. And if you look at some places on google maps, you can see that there is a section 'Upcoming Events', so I'm sure the data is here. The problem is, Place Details endpoint does not provide with such information, although upon some research I found some information that told me otherwise, namely this, however I am aware that this information is pretty old at best. My question is - is this feature of API still available, or was it removed, or what?
Currently what I'm doing is first sending the request like this:
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/nearbysearch/json?key={api_key}&location={city}&radius={some_radius}
to get all the places available, then for each place_id in response:
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/details/json?key={key}&placeid={place_id}
The fields in these responses are not including any info about events, even if the place have the section 'Upcoming Events' on google maps.
There is a feature request for Events API in the Google issue tracker:
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/137032001
I would suggest staring the feature request to add your vote and subscribe to further notifications from Google. Hopefully one day they implement this API and expose events via APIs.
TL;DR - I need help using Google Places API to download star ratings and user reviews of multiple stores and I am too dumb to figure out what I am suppose to be doing. Please help!
For the life of me, this has been hard to find any sort of useful info or documentation in terms of trying to download user ratings and star reviews from multiple locations. Just to give you a bit of info, I work for a company that has three major brands with over 500 stores across the country. We have multiple listings and our senior stakeholders are wanting to get their hands on what our customers are saying about our brand and particularly see who are top performing stores are (and who are NOT are top performers) in the form of star ratings and user reviews.
Now to get those sorts of insights is pretty easy to do for one location, but for multiple? It seems Google doesn't have that feature on hand.
According to the Google Community, I would need to use Google My Business API (see thread 1) However Google Support told me that for what I am looking to do required Google Places API. So after heading over there, I found this which makes this the most possible way I can get what I need Google Places API
Now I am stuck at the part about loading libraries. Darnit, surely there is a way I can just make an API request to get what I want, no?
I am throwing myself on the mercy of you smart people (I have the basic knowledge and I am a person who learns by doing) so your assistances will be deeply appreciated.
Using Places API web service you can get up to 5 reviews when you execute a place detail request. Rating is also available in the response.
Please have a look at the documentation:
https://developers.google.com/places/web-service/details#PlaceDetailsResults
Currently, there is no way to get more than 5 reviews in Places API. You can see a feature request in the public issue tracker, however, it looks like Google didn't set a high priority on this task:
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/35825957
If you are the owner of the place in Google My Business, you can use Google My Business API to retrieve a list of all reviews for your place:
https://developers.google.com/my-business/content/review-data
Hope it helps!
I have a customer with store locator functionality based on Google maps API. Couple days ago the complained about locator not able to find 'Carson, CA'
Here's a really simple demo from Google itself and it doesn't work either:
http://gmaps-samples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/geocoder/singlegeocode.html
Is there a way to contact Google support? I tried to search for any contact information but couldn't find anything useful.
It does look like a bug as there is a Carson marked on the map south of Los Angeles. It happens: geocoder data gets updated and sometimes things get missed off. Bugs need to be raised in the issue tracker. Be sure to search first (although I didn't find a previous report for this) and choose the right template when raising a new bug.
http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/list
For a store locator app, you may find searching for West Carson provides a decent start point, although this is hardly a usable workaround. Try using the zip code instead.
I don't think this is actually a bug; let me gently suggest that I think you are probably using the wrong API for looking up "Carson, CA." I'm not being harsh, just trying to help. But Geocoding has two basic functions:
Given an address as input, reply with the best Lat-Lng coordinates for that address.
Given coordinates as input, reply with the closest known address (sometimes called Reverse Geocoding).
With "Carson, CA" as input, it doesn't seem like you have given enough information to have defined an address, which probably means that the Geocoder just didn't have enough information. The same goes for the Store Locator; "Carson, CA" isn't a store.
I think what you do want to use for a search of this kind is the Google Places APIdev-guide, because you are actually looking for a place, not coordinates or an address. Using the Google Places Autocomplete, for example, you can set the tool to search for different types, for example: countries, cities, or geocode (and there are others). The first, countries will let you find places such as: Australia, Bahamas, or Canada. The second, cities, will let you find places such as: Albuquerque, Baton Rouge, or Carson, CA. The last, geocode will restrict you to address searches, which is essentially what you are using when using the Geocoder.
I made the same mistake myself the other day when I sent a request to the Geocoder that contained "Wrigley Field"; the result was some address in Georgia on "Wrigley Field Road," which had me very confused until I thought about it for awhile and then it made sense. Wrigley Field is a place, not an address. I have been working with the Autocomplete a bunch lately and that has really made the difference between the two modes of lookup clear. As a possible solution for you, if you don't provide a specific type to the Autocomplete, it will use all of them, which will allow you to find places and/or addresses. It might give you a more functional solution for your site.
Anyway, just trying to offer some helpful feedback and I hope I did help -