I am working on a application which gives me all near by places within 1km range from my current location. I am able to get longitude and latitute of the current location using LocationManager class in android. Using this information i want to get information (i.e. long/lati) of the nearby places. I have seen some of the webservices alos but couldn't get the answer. Please help me.
There is a Places API Application Form that you'll need to fill in in order to get access to the Google Places API. This application will be verified by Google and they'll provide you with the necessary access.
You'll also need a Google Adsense Publisher ID (
More info on the Places API can be found here :
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/places/
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I've been looking at the Places API from Google for this, but I don't know if this is the right direction to take. The project revolves around finding a list of places based on a specific location, other than the current location (for instance, what kind of restaurants are around your friend's house (based on longitude and latitude)). Most of what I've seen with the Places API involves using the user's current location. Is there a way to pass in a predetermined location? Or can I fool it into thinking that location is my current location?
I think still places is the best option for you, you have to really understand the api to get what you need from it. Look at how could you send a request to the places api with a given location (long, ltd) and it will return nearby places.
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/search-find-place#locationbias
I am working on an android app and want to implement checkIn feature in my android application.
I am using Google Places API for searching the nearby locations from the current location. I want the sorted results according to the locations, like If any location which is near I want that location to be shown first than other locations which are away.
I have searched a lot on this and checked the link
Place Search
I found the rankby parameter to be send in order to find the locations in ascending order by their distance from the current location.
So, we can pass the parameter with rankby=distance.
But we need to send some of the parameters from keyword, name or type. But I want to get all the results which are nearby to the current location. I cannot send any of these parameters, so how can I do it then. Please help if anyone know about it.
I want to develop an application for searching Near by places(restaurants, ATMs etc), Currently I am using Google Places API and it is working fine but the problem is it is not giving me the names of local restaurants present near to me or also giving some restaurants name which are far away from my current location.
All my local restaurants are present and shown on Google Maps in restaurant Category but not providing the same in nearby searches.
When I tries the same using application NearMe on play Store its is showing the proper data including all my nearby local restaurants and more precise results.
Is something needs to be done at coding level to get all these local restaurants data and more precise results or NearMe using some different API ?
I was having this same issue when working with the Google Places API. I was trying to grab the closest places within a specific radius and Google Places would return a random assortment of places within that radius as opposed to the closest 5 or so places.
I did find a very rough work around that might work in your case. I noticed that by tightening up the search radius or distance I received closer places in my query (obviously). But this was the only way I could get the closest places that I knew existed within the API that were close to the current location.
Check out this post that is the same issue.
Google Places Api sort by distance
How to display nearby places & place details like ATM's, Hospitals, Restaurants, etc. in Android Google Map
This is the link that I used:
Showing nearby places & place details using Google Places & Maps API
I'm able to fetch my current location but nearby places are not getting displayed. Neither am I getting any error in my logcat
you can get places near by your location using Google Place API and for use of Place Api see this blog
hope this will help you.
Get places nearby your location using Google Place API. Know about Location Data also filter data with Place Type where you found the place to search, Places service, place autocomplete requests and deprecated types. Resource 1 Resource 2
I tried using the Google Current Place API but the results were limited to a few results and i could not change the radius around the current location. To get many results and to adjust the area radius around the current users location use the Places Search API.
I am developing a application based on location based services.I need to find the nearest locations like Restaurants,Hospitals,Companies. I find we can use google map api services.
I tried to find the way using this service provide by google
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/webservices/
But i did not get any result please suggest me how can we get the nearest location details.
Provide me is there any samples.
Thanks in advance.
use this as as URL:
http://maps.google.co.in/maps?q=hospitals+near+<<coordiantes>>
coordinates = 12.545454,78.434304 (just an example).
you will get the coordinates through your location service.