I'm using the Google Maps API (v3). It is used to look up places with the autocomplete function.
When I search for 'De Koffiebrandery', the result I get is almost complete. The only thing that is missing, is the house number.
When I look for 'De Koffiebrandery' in Google I can see that the house number is present in the result.
How can I get the Google Maps API autocomplete to return the house number as well?
Hopefully someone can help me out with this!
Actually, the 'Street Number' is there. It is '40'. The other number you see is the postal-code (5222 BH). You can console the response. Here's the response on my end.
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I want business description using google API or wikidata API.
As shown in above image I want to access description (which is highlighted in red circle.) and store it into application database.
What I tried till now, I used google place API to get the place information, using that I am able to get information like review,rating,opening hours. But I am not able to get that information which I have mention in above image. But I do not know how to get that information using Wikidata api or Google Knowledge Graph api.
Can any one suggest me that how can I use that API to get that information.
Any help would be highly appreciated !
Thanks,
I'd also be keen to know if this is possible. For example, with a bounding box. 4 coordinates, might it be possible for Google Knowledge or another API to give me a summing up of the place.
For example: bbox=4.721375,52.290843,5.070190,52.399905
Might return information and history on the city of Amsterdam. Like when you type into Google Search "Amsterdam".
Just a thought. I have previously accomplished this with a very manual combination of Overpass API (related to OSM) and Freebase.
I just found this: Find a place description in Freebase using latitude and longitude?
So, it can be done. And it is already documented.
I want to know if there is any api that can allow me to get the number of reviews from an url.
I know that google offers the possibility to get this number by using the placeid, but the only information I have is the url of the website of a company.
Any ideas please?
Maybe, but probably not.
Places API Text Search seems to be able to find places by their URL:
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/textsearch/json?key=YOURKEY&query=http://www.starbucks.com/store/1014527/us/303-congress-street/303-congress-street-boston-ma-02210
However, this is not a documented feature of the API and I do not think this can be relied upon, so I'd recommend filing a feature request, to make this a supported, reliable feature.
As for the amount of reviews, you may be interested in:
Issue 3484: Add # of reviews to the Place Details Results
I've written an API like this for Reviewsmaker, but I target specific business names not URLs. See this example (I activated a key for this purpose for now):
http://reviewsmaker.com/api/google/?business=life%20made%20a%20little%20easier&api_key=4a2819f3-2874-4eee-9c46-baa7fa17971c
Or, try yourself with any business name:
http://reviewsmaker.com/api/google/?business=Toys R Us&api_key=4a2819f3-2874-4eee-9c46-baa7fa17971c
The following call would return a JSON object which shows:
{
"results":{
"business_name":"Life Made A Little Easier",
"business_address":"1702 Sheepshead Bay Rd, Brooklyn, NY 11235, USA",
"place_id":"ChIJ_xjIR2REwokRH2qEigdFCvs",
"review_count":38
},
"api":{
"author":"Ilan Patao",
"home":"www.reviewsmaker.com"
}
}
Pinging this EP using a Chronjob for example once every hour or two and return the review_count can pretty much build your own review monitoring app;
You can probably do what you're looking for if you query the Places API Text Search or the CSE (Custom Search Engine) API to lookup the URL, return back the matching name of the business associated with this URL and calling an endpoint like this one to return back the associated review count.
You can probably code this in py or PHP. Not sure how familiar you are with data parsing, but I was able to build my API based on Google's CSE API. CSE provides metadata in its results which contain the total reviews, so if you create a CSE engine and use the CSE API looking for business schemas, review schemas, etc; you can return back items and within the PageMap node there are objects with data that you need very little tweaking to do (such as string replacing, trimming) which will return back the values you're looking for.
Hope my answer helped, at least to lead you in the right direction :)
Trying to mimic the 'what's here' feature of Google Maps in my own website but it seems that items of type 'natural_feature' are excluded from Google Maps 3 API geocoding and places searches, both nearby and radar, and also on text searches unless the EXACT name of the place is provided. This must have been an informed choice by Google to do this - anyone know the rationale, and better, offer a workaround? Seems crazy that I can't get the names of woods, nature reserves etc. any more...
Found out how to do it! If you get a geocoding API key from Google you can get all the data for natural features included in the JSON/XML response from a server request like the following (I was trying to get the data for "Gamsey Wood"):
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?latlng=52.4180698,-0.2029999&result_type=natural_feature&key=YOUR_GOOGLE_GEO_KEY
Happy days!
I have successfully used Google Places Api and was able to retrieve business establishments (shops) given a latlongbound and a keyword. But I cant stop wondering why it returns lesser shops than when you go to maps.google.com and type the keyword. Google Places does not even return those with a name and icon drawn on the map itself.
I want to retrieve a json with a similar result when typing a keyword on maps.google.com and I don't really mind if Google Places is not used.
Sounds like you may have additional filtering preventing you from querying all the results. Make sure you aren't restricting the 'bounds' or 'region' around your lat/long.
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/
Good luck!
Maybe this is the wrong place for this, but I can't seem to find anywhere else to find out. Does anyone know if it is possible to access the MBTA (subway, the T, whatever you call it - the non-bus/commuter-rail part) stations in the google places API? I keep trying to do transit_station or subway_station but for some reason it always returns with no results. However, when I look up transportation in Boston on Google Maps, it gives me the subway lines as an option. Any idea why this is the case?
Both transit_station and subway_station look like they work. Doesn't look like all of them are available in the Places API though:
http://www.geocodezip.com/v3_GoogleEx_place-search_MBTA.html
A FusionTables based MBTA map (not what you were looking for, but...)