We have a signup page where the user enters his business phone number. We want to find his business information from the phone number for verification. How can this be done with Google places/maps api? Is there any better alternative? I am kind of lost.
After looking through the google api to double-check, their response doesn't return a phone number for the company either. https://developers.google.com/places/web-service/
It also may depend on the type of business you're looking for but Yelp does allow phone number searches in their API:
https://www.yelp.com/developers/documentation/v2/phone_search
Looks like you can get what you want using the Place details call of the web-service api. Amongst the fields returned are the formatted_phone_number and international_phone_number.
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I was trying to embed google plus reviews on my website using the google places api. The following link is the process I used to set this up.
http://gurutechnolabs.tumblr.com/post/112214772991/how-to-embed-google-reviews-using-google-places
When I enter https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/textsearch/json?key=yourAPIKey&query=YourPlace into the browser I don't get any data when I enter my business name. I do get data when I enter a different business name. I suspect the issue is my business address isn't public as I serve customers only at their location. Is this the issue and any way to use this feature with a hidden address? Thanks in advance.
If your business is defined as Service Area Buiseness, it will not be accessible via Places API search or Places API autocomplete.
If this is feasible, try to change the type of the business in Google My Business. Not sure if it will be possible to extract reviews by a place ID, however, it's not easy to figure out what is the place ID of your business.
Can I have the link to your business in Google Plus for further investigation?
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.
Is there any Google API / classes, that can be used to check if a text input is a city or not a city?
I'm developing a real estate iOS app. My app uses GoogleMapSDK for iOS v1.8.1.
if you are just after US cities , there are many places on the internet that you can get every city and zip code for free - like the US Post Office. If you can't store all that or don't want to and really want to use Google - then the exact API you are looking for does not exist. BUT you can actually get the info you want out of the Google API, it will just take some work. It is easy to send the input to Google Geocoding API, then parse the response and see if the response city matches what the user entered. I know... this is not ideal, but there are ways to make it look like it's working the way you want from the user's point of view even though the exact API doesn't exist.
Use place/autocomplete/json API:
It gives a list of response based on query
Simply add "types=(cities)" to your query and Google will return you a list of cities
Use geocode/json API
Good tool to get GPS location from an address (eg. New York)
Simply check the "types" field returned from API, check if it's "locality" or "administrative_area_level_3"
Note: two exceptions are Hong Kong and Macau, MO both are treated as "country" but they are cities
I want to locate a location on the google map using phone number. Is it possible? If yes, what is the parameter which I need to append in the request url. As of now, I am appending 'address' and my URL is
http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=THE+FRENCH+LAUNDRY&sensor=false
As long as I know, this is not possible with Google Maps (but maybe someone else knows more...). In some country, like Italy (where I live), it could even be against the law (depending on a few legal parameters).
Despite this, I saw some user here in SO signalling that some applications developed and managed by Google and installed on Android devices seem to be able to do so (in the countries where this is legal, of course). Most likely, these apps use a Google online database that is not accessible to the common user/developer.
Moreover, there are other companies that offer location services that can locate a user both if he/she uses a cellular phone and if he/she uses a land line one (in the countries where this is legal).
The website I am working on should keep a list of many businesses located at different cities. I add those business manually into my database, and later need to display them with Google Maps using markers (so the main purpose of the map is to display a list of businesses). The map is public and no fees are charged. I am not retrieving businesses' information from Google. What I do not understand is whether I am allowed to use Google Maps to display a list of businesses or not.
I can not quite understand this point of their ToS
10.2 (b) No Business, Residential, or Telephone Listings Services. You must not display business listings Content in any Maps API Implementation that has the primary purpose of making available business, residential address, or telephone directory listings.
Does this basically say that I can implement a service to list businesses, but I cannot query Google to obtain information about other businesses and add them to my own list?
Thank you
Firstly I am not a lawyer but I have taken a good look at the Google Maps licensing and I would read it the opposite way that you have read it. I think that displaying business listings on a Google map violates their ToS.
10.2 Restrictions on the Types of Applications that You are Permitted to Build with the Maps API(s). Except as explicitly permitted in Section 8 (Licenses from Google to You) or the Maps APIs Documentation, you must not (nor may you permit anyone else to) do any of the following:
....
(b) No Business, Residential, or Telephone Listings Services. You must
not display business listings Content in any Maps API Implementation
that has the primary purpose of making available business, residential
address, or telephone directory listings.
It seems to me the criteria that is being evaluated is the type of service you are offering and if the type of offering is a business listing service (which it sounds like you service is) then you are not allowed to use the Google map API. This makes sense as it would be hard to differentiate that sort of business listing from the service that Google provide.
However, there are a number of free options you could use to put markers on maps that you should look at which avoid this issue. These include:
OpenLayers
GeoExt
PolyMaps
Leaflet
As you have created your own database I suggest you to create a web service of it and then use that data to display it on map.
Refer this link..This one is the best for your question. It explain each every steps from DB to Google Maps.
https://developers.google.com/maps/articles/phpsqlsearch_v3
Another thing which you can do is that you can upload the bulk data on Google's Places and then you can use Google's Places API to fetch the data. But one thing which you i would like to point is that if you use Places API then it will provide you maximum 20 results. Refer this links.
Bulk data upload
Hope this will help you....