I just posted 2 places with the Add Place API.
I used this model and got a success status confirmation by the webservice and then for each I got an id, and place_id, reference, scope and status
But the problem is I cannot see my new places on the google maps interface. where can I find my places to check if everything is right?
if you take a look at the documentation:
When you add a place, the new place is available immediately in Nearby Searches initiated by your application. The new place also enters a moderation queue to be considered for Google Maps. A newly-added place does not appear in Text Search or Radar Search results, or to other applications, until it has been approved by the moderation process.
Which means everyone can add their own places for the own use. But in order to have your place visible to other apps or the Google Maps, it needs to pass the moderation process. If your places did not show up after a week or so, then probably it didn't make it through.
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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.
I would like to develop a service, using Google Distance Matrix API, where a user can enter their current location and a map will be displayed showing how many other users from their group have addresses in the same general area. For privacy reasons, I do not want to show any other details (location, name, address etc.) of those other users just the number of people.
In order to ascertain this information I was intending to make a call to the API and displaying under the map of their area a message like "There are 5 other people within a 3 minute drive of your address".
Can anybody tell me whether this meets the API limitation:
The Google Maps Distance Matrix API may only be used in conjunction with displaying results on a Google map. It is prohibited to use Google Maps Distance Matrix API data without displaying a Google map
If my requirements of the API are not acceptable, could anybody suggest another publicly available API that I could use in its place?
Thanks!
Yournavigation Api gives you distance from given points.
Try this request example.
You can find their usage policy here.
They said that there are no limitations on usage, except those regarding overload:
The routing API is open and freely available for everyone under the condition that you don't overload the server. Overloading the server in this context means: more then 1 request per second for sustained periods of time. Bursting multiple requests for short time-periods is not a problem though
I am able to get restaurants list, timings, rating and displaying them in my Android application by using Google places API. This is API
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/search/json?location=13.0104611,80.2086226&
radius=10000&types=cafe|restaurant&hasNextPage=true&nextPage()=true&sensor=false&key=MY_API_KEY
As per my client requirement, Users should be able to give rating to a specific restaurant from my application, this restaurant got from above Googel API.
Kindly tell me whether possible or not giving rating to a restaurant from above API . Thanks in advance.
According to the documentation, using the Google Places API Web Service, the following place requests are available:
Place Searches return a list of places based on a user's location or search string.
Place Details requests return more detailed information about a specific Place, including user reviews.
Place Add allow you to supplement the data in Google's Places database with data from your application.
Place Photos gives you access to the millions of Place related photos stored in Google's Place database.
Place Autocomplete can be used to automatically fill in the name and/or address of a place as you type.
Query Autocomplete can be used to provide a query prediction service for text-based geographic searches, by returning suggested queries as you type.
The only request that allows to put data is Place Add, but according to the documentation it adds a place that is available immediately in Nearby Searches initiated by your application and also enters a moderation queue to be considered for Google Maps.
So the answer is that for the time being it's not possible to add reviews to Places using the Google Places API Web Service.
I have added new basketball court to the Google Database 2 days ago but it's not added while I searched for that particular court in google maps . I don't know how to track the status of the court whether it passes the moderation process . I explored it in google places add api but it gives that only the scope of the app in the response .
Also the newly added places is not reflected directly in nearby (app-scope)api. I have got this app-specific court when I pass type params to the api . Then I need to concatenate these two results to get reflected to the application. Am I right?
Please guide me in optimal path to be listed in my application as well as Google's database.
Also Please help me to find my query below.
How can I track the status of newly added places in google .
Please Help me
Thanks in advance.
From the Place Add documentation itself, it is stated that:
When you add a place, the new place is available immediately in Nearby
Searches initiated by your application. The new place also enters a
moderation queue to be considered for Google Maps. A newly-added place
does not appear in Text Search or Radar Search results, or to other
applications, until it has been approved by the moderation process.
So it means that you can see the places that you add. Just take note that you are the only one that can see this as of the time you created/add. in order for the others to view it or make visible, it needs to pass a moderation process. If your add places did not show up after a week or more, then maybe it did not pass the process.
Just read the above link to know more about it.
UPDATE
Unfortunately, Place Add has been deprecated on June 30, 2017 and will stop working on June 30, 2018. So you cannot use this method anymore. For further details please refer to the corresponding geo blog post.
I am looking to find out if Google Places Autocomplete should return results including my submitted places.
I have submitted a place to the Place Report endpoint, and got an
id and ref back.
I then want my users to be able to select that
place from an autocomplete box - along with all the other results.
I have added the browser API key to the Javascript src.
Is this how it's designed to work, 'cos it's not working like that at the moment - or am I being impatient / doing something wrong.
I have verified my Place has been added by calling up the details using the reference it returned when I added it...
Your Place Reports are supposed to be available immediately to your application, but they must pass through a Google moderation process before they become generally available to all users. From the User Place Reports section of the Google Places API Docs:
Place Report requests are used to add new Places, or delete existing
ones. New Places will be available immediately in Place Searches
initiated by your application, and will enter the moderation queue to
be considered for Google Maps. A newly-added Place will not be
available to other applications until it has been approved by the
moderation process.
It isn't clear from your question exactly how you performed your Place Report, so I assumed you had used the Google Places API.
Some additional info, based on your comment:
It makes sense that you can see the place you have added using the Places API, but that it doesn't appear when using Autocomplete. The Places API is designed to be very thorough (and of course, the new place was added by your application), while the Autocomplete is focused on being high-speed, low-latency, and is based almost entirely on how Google rates the prominence of nearby places. Assuming the newly added place has not yet had many clicks, ratings, etc. on maps.google.com, it makes sense that it will not yet rate very highly in prominence.
There is some very good information about the differences between the Autocomplete tool and the general Places API in the Autocomplete Demo & Places API Demo & Discussion Video, given by Paul Saxman, a Developer Advocate at Google and Marcelo Camelo, Google's Technical Lead for the Places API. There is a portion near the end where they discuss adding new places and I think it will help clarify the results you are seeing. Anyway, I hope it helps -