I am trying to fetch airports using the Places API autocomplete feature.
Looking at the types parameter, if this is an airport I display the result or else show it as no airports found.
I want to enhance this app, I want to show terminals within each Airport object that I display on the front end.
I have found the nearby search within places API but it is difficult to create a search query using keyword, and type to get exact results for all the airports around the world.
Does anyone have any idea as to what would be the best way to get airports and their terminals using the Places API?
Well I'm not sure if this is really your expected result but here's what I tried:
Get the placeId of an airport using Place Autocomplete.
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/autocomplete/json?input=dublin&radius=500&types=airport&key=API_KEY
Then use that placeId to do a Place Details request and get the coordinates of the airport.
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/details/json?place_id=ChIJLxmTab4RZ0gRVfMlt7UbElU&key=API_KEY
This also returns an overview of the airport wherein in this case the result says: "
"Airport with 2 runways, a 2nd terminal opened in 2010 plus buses into Dublin & other towns/cities."
Then after having the coordinates, I use that to do a Nearby Search request.
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/nearbysearch/json?keyword=terminal&location=53.42644809999999,-6.249909799999999&radius=10000&key=API_KEY
This managed to get the terminals around it, I just threw in some radius but I guess it should be different on other locations. I also tried this with other Airports and it somehow worked.
If this won't work for your use case. Another thing I think you could do is to store the coordinates of known airports (Please note that coordinates/placeID are the only thing that is allowed for us to store/cache. Please see Specific Terms). And create an object which also stores the coordinate of their corresponding terminals. This would be an extensive work if you want to do this with airports all around the world.
Hope this helps.
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I am using the Google API to sort images taken while traveling into organized folders, append tags and rename files with relevant information. I have my code working well but am not always happy with the results. I want to be able to focus my query results on major tourist attractions such as National Parks, Ski Resorts, Beaches, etc. The problem I am finding is that the prominence "rankby" variable and the "radius" are not giving satisfactory results. Here is a typical query for Zion National Park.
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/nearbysearch/json?location=37.269486111111,-112.948141666667&rankby=prominence&radius=50000&type=natural_feature,tourist_attraction,point_of_interest&keyword=&key=MYAPIKEY
The most prominent result is Springdale which is the town where you enter the part. Zion National Park is listed much further down in the results. What my code does is use the LAT and LON extracted using EXIF and does a Google API nearby search request to find the Place ID for where the photo was taken. It then does another API request for Place Details using the place_id provided by the previous step to cut down on the information I need to parse.
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/details/json?place_id=ChIJ8R5RCzaNyoARegi3rqVkstk&fields=name,address_component&key=MYAPIKEY
I can force the nearby search to return a National Park by searching against "National Park" in the keywords variable but that limits my project to only being able to provide National Park results since the keywords field can only accept one string.
I would like a park of my query to be able to return the most prominent tourist attraction at the general level, i.e. Zion National Park, Yosemite National Park, etc. so I can sort images into the general name folders and another part of the query provides the exact location. i.e. I am on this trail or at this lookout. The problem is the Google API sees these specific locations "Trail, Lookout" as tourist attractions, parks, establishments, etc. as well so it chooses those first.
What I need help with is trying to figure out if there is a better way to structure my query to return the high-level / name of the major park. From my understanding, the types field only searches on the first type even if there is more in the list and the keywords field can only accept one string as well making it impossible for one phase to capture all major destinations at a high level.
Perhaps it needs to be done with more queries but I am trying to limit the number of queries to stay inside the free quota. Maybe it will just take a long time to fully sort my files.
Read through and implemented Google API structure. I hoping someone can provide a more detailed query structure or method to parse out truly prominent locations rather than googles interpretation of prominence as it can be affected by user ratings, etc. It is not always accurate.
For a mobile application, I would like to get all places included in a map screen view (hence the rectangular zone).
Reading the API's documentation, I found out that Find Place requests can use a rectangular location bias, but only answer with one place; on the other hand, Text Search requests return several places, but do not have rectangular location bias; moreover, both need some input text, which I don't want to provide.
Which request type is the best to match my problem? (maybe Places API offers a suitable request I don't know about)
Hey you could define a zone using latlong then use the Nearby Search Requests
and it should give you all places in that zone
Im still figuring how to use google map api's, I want to get all locations in my country (nigeria) and then put it in a dropdown, an example is something like jiji.ng, when trying to search they have a drop down with info of places, states etc in Nigeria, when the user searches it filters the locations, i tried typing in 'United State of America' & it showed me nothing because it is limited to Nigeria only, that is exactly what i want, check out jiji.ng pls, just to be sure.
Google map is not really needed in doing this, You can download the list of places from Geonames then you can use it within your app (To my understanding, its free maybe only some licences)
I was wondering if it is possible to find a specific place using the google places api.
I know the name of the place, the address or website url, and the coordinates.
I need this to get the ratings this place has.
Is this possible? If not, is it going to be?
I think your best bet would be to do a nearbysearch with the location (lat,long), a small radius, and the name and types parameters to narrow it down. If you are targeting a specific place, then you can just manually find it in the results and use its reference for a Details request in your solution.
If the target place can be dynamic, for example based on user input, then you might want to show the user the list of results and let them choose the correct one. I don't think there's a way to guarantee that you will always get exactly the result you're looking for as, say, the first result in the list. Experiment with different types of requests and parameters and try to get a sense for the behaviour of the responses to find what will work best for your solution.
I am trying to get user input from matplotlib XY plot. The plot contains multiple datasets and I need get from user selection of which dataset to use and the range. I need this to fit model to right dataset and range.
Therefore I need two indicators, which would be "attached" to specific dataset, per user choosing. I need to get from them both the dataset info and the range info.
Somehow in line with what commercial plotting packages (Igor Pro, Kaleidagraph, Sigmaplot...) provide as "cursors" and similarly named widgets for control of their fitting interface, which is what I am trying to reproduce.
I have checked various examples with rangeselector and other methods I was able to Google on the web, but none I was able to find seems to be able to provide what I need.
Would anyone have any pointers to where to look or what to start with, please?
You might want to look at this example: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/ginput_manual_clabel.html
The interesting functions are ginput, waitforbuttonpress.