I have integrated Google map auto complete into my application. When user types koramangala. He will get entire address. This is part of registration.
Can you please guide is it legal to store Google map auto complete address into my application?.
If it is not legal can any one tell me how i can proceed.(Instead of storing country,city,state all into my database).
Thanks and Regards,
Gokul
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We are one of the municipality in Canada and want to add our rural addresses to Google maps. So user can type the rural address and find out the location on Google Maps. Anybody knows what is the process to add all these addresses to Google Geo-coding, will appreciate for your help.
Thanks,
PM
Google Map Maker is a tool that allows public users to add, modify and remove data from the Geo repositories at Google. User edits made in Map Maker are subject to community and internal Google moderation before flowing into production systems.
You can read about Map Maker tool here.
Google also has a Base Map Partner Program. Using this program and registering as a partner the local authority can submit a data in one of supported formats via Basemap Upload Tool.
You can read about supported formats at
https://support.google.com/mapcontentpartners/topic/24789?hl=en
https://support.google.com/mapcontentpartners/answer/144284?hl=en&ref_topic=22146
There is also a help center that explains all aspects of the Basemap Partner program:
https://support.google.com/mapcontentpartners#topic=21600
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.
I am looking for a solution that would tell me if a particular company has a website. The way I imagine using it is: I would send a phrase-based query to the API (for example "Salesforce Limited") and it would return a website if it has one in its database).
I checked Google Maps API and Google Places API but can's see if they provide website addresses for places.
I know Google displays a location on the right hand side if you type a name of the place and at times also has a website link referring to it:
example data I am after
Do you know if the website data can be accessed by any of the Google APIs and if not what could be an alternative way of obtaining such data?
Thanks
Kam
I've been developing a website where users can add a place (say a store in a city) and it is stored in a database. Now I would like to be able to display these places on a interactive map on my website. I got a bing maps developer key but it seems i can only display the data if i have the coordinates (lon/lat). Is that true? And if so, how do I get the coordinates automatically once a user adds new data?
As an example: You add Store XYZ in City XYZ, but you DON'T have to enter the coordinates. Now, this info is stored, but I don't have the coordinates..
Any help is much appreciated!
If you don't have any plans on allowing your users to insert place locations in a map or by filling some lat/long data, I suggest you to use google web services to get geolocation of those places. You'll need to format the input you send into something like an address to get it working properly though.
See this Google documentation