I've this URL from which I can find all the Cafes in the defined area using google apis:
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/nearbysearch/json?location=26.272514,50.195682&radius=15000&types=cafe&key=<myAPI>
The area covered in the range above is within the circle shown below:
The actual area of the city I'm considering is as appearing below:
https://www.google.com.sa/maps/place/Al+Khobar/#26.2435009,50.0472298,11z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x3e49e839e8ef58d9:0xef778812d8b6aad1!8m2!3d26.2171906!4d50.1971381?hl=en
How can I get all the cafes which are exactly in this city (no more no less, without using radius)?
After digging at Google Places API here I found this code, which looks to be fine for me:
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/textsearch/json?query=cafes+in+Khobar&key=YOUR_API_KEY
You can achieve that using the text search endpoint like this:
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/textsearch/json?query=Khobar&type=cafe®ion=SA&key=API_KEY
The tricky part comes when you want to specify concrete locations like:
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/textsearch/json?query=Macdonalds+in+Toledo+in+Spain&type=restaurant&key=API_KEY
as it performs a partial match of your query and if you will enter some name composed of two strings(example Sweet Burger) that you know doesn't exist in that city, it'll still get you back to some places that encounter combinations of | sweet | burger | Toledo | Spain | but you'd expect to return [].
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I am trying to figure out how many restaurants, in each country, there are of a specific cuisine (seafood). I have looked at Google Places Api and TripAdvisor Api, but cannot find these numbers. I don´t need the list of restaurants, only number of restaurants. I found OpenStreetMap which looked very promising. I downloaded data for Norway, but the numbers are not correct (osmium tags-filter norway-latest.osm.pbf cuisine=seafood) = 62, which is way to low.
Any suggestion for how and where I can find what I am looking for?
Extrapolate.
You won't get an accurate answer, how do you even define what a seafood restaurant is?
Find out roughly how many restaurants there are in the area you are interested in and then decide what % of them might be seafood restaurants.
You can use this approach to extract the data from OpenStreetMap:
https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/363474/aggregate-number-of-features-by-country-in-overpass
You can run the query on http://overpass-turbo.eu/ (go to settings and chose the kumi-systems server).
The query could look like this:
// Define fields for csv output
[out:csv(name, total)][timeout:2500];
//All countries
area["admin_level"=2];
// Count in each area
foreach->.regio(
// Collect all Nodes with highway=milestone in the current area
( node(area.regio)[cuisine=seafood];
way(area.regio)[cuisine=seafood];
rel(area.regio)[cuisine=seafood];);
// assemble the output
make count name = regio.set(t["name:en"]),
total = count(nodes) + count(ways) + count(relations);
out;
);
This query can take a long time (at the time of writing, mine did not yet finish)
You can also run the query via curl in on some server and let the results mailed to you via curl ....... | mail -s "Overpass Result" yourmail#example.com. You get the curl command in the browser network tab by "copy curl"
I also considered Taginfo (https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/cuisine=seafood) but it cannot filter by tag.
I'm trying to create a flow using Power Automate (which I'm quite new to) that can get the link/URL in an email I receive daily, then download the .csv file that normally a click to the link would do, and then save the file to a given local folder.
An example of the email I get:
Screenshot of the email I get daily
I searched in Power Automate Community and found this insightful LINK post & answer almost solved it. However, after following the steps and built the flow, it kept failing at the Compose step.
Screenshot of the Flow & Error Message
The flow
Error message
Expression used:
substring(body('Html_to_text'),add(indexOf(body('Html_to_text'),'here'),5),sub(indexOf(body('Html_to_text'),'Name'),5))
Seems the expression couldn't really get the URL/Link? I'm not sure and searched but couldn't find any more posts that can help.
Please kindly share all insights on approaches or workarounds that you think may help me solve the problem and truly thanks!
PPPPPPPPisces
We need to breakdown the bits of the function here which needs 3 bits of info
substring(1 text to search, 2 starting position of the text you want, 3 length of text)
For example, if you were trying to return an unknown number from the text dog 4567 bird
Our function would have 3 parts.
body('Html_to_text'), this bit gets the text we are searching for
add(indexOf(body('Html_to_text'),'dog'),4), this bit finds the position in the text 4 characters after the start of the word dog (3 letters for dog + the space)
sub(sub(indexOf(body('Html_to_text'),'bird'),2)),add(indexOf(body('Html_to_text'),'dog'),4)), I've changed the structure of your code here because this part needs to return the length of the URL, not the ending position. So here, we take the position of the end of the URL (position of the word bird minus two spaces) and subtract it from the position of the start of the URL (position of the word dog + 4 spaces) to get the length.
In your HTML to text output, you need to check what the HTML looks like, and search for a word before the URL starts, and a word after the URL starts, and count the exact amount of spaces to reach the URL. You can then put those words and counts into your code.
More generally, when you have a complicated problem that you need to troubleshoot, you can break it down into steps. For example. Rather than putting that big mess of code into a single block, you can make each chunk of the code in its own compose, and then one final compose to bring them all together - that way when you run it you can see what information each bit is giving out, or where it is failing, and experiment from there to discover what is wrong.
This call https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/autocomplete/xml?input=qqqqqqq (plus your key) returns addresses like 'qqqqqqqqqq, Florida, USA' and 'qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq - Luizote de Freitas, Uberlândia - State of Minas Gerais, Brazil'. I understand that QQQ might be a valid name, but qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq? And it works the same way for any sequence of repeating letters or numbers.
Ok, let's say this is google having bad data. But how to explain results for 'www': 'Best Buy, Middlesex Turnpike, Burlington, MA, USA', 'Acton Toyota of Littleton, Great Road, Littleton, MA, USA'? I do not see any sane correlation between 'www' and the results.
You can see similar behaviour in google maps, so it's not just autocomplete API.
Any theories?
When I execute request https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/autocomplete/json?input=www&key=MY_API_KEY from my location I get really weird predictions as well
Montpellier, France (place ID ChIJsZ3dJQevthIRAuiUKHRWh60, type locality)
Berlin, Germany (place ID ChIJAVkDPzdOqEcRcDteW0YgIQQ, type locality)
Hamburg, Germany (place ID ChIJuRMYfoNhsUcRoDrWe_I9JgQ, type locality)
Munich, Germany (place ID ChIJ2V-Mo_l1nkcRfZixfUq4DAE, type locality)
Vienna, Austria (place ID ChIJn8o2UZ4HbUcRRluiUYrlwv0, type locality)
Note all of them have locality type, and indeed it smells like a bug, because I cannot see how on earth the text 'www' might match these predictions. Apparently, something is broken on Google backend and leads to the strange behavior in places autocomplete.
I can confirm that I can see this problem on Google Maps web site as well
At this point I believe the best option for us is sending a feedback to Google Maps team and hope they will fix it soon.
I'm trying to put together a google places call to do a nearby search just for hotels. I tried using the types parm but the closest type to hotel I found was lodging which produced no results. So then I tried using the name parm and the same zero result. Am I missing something or is places not meant to perform a search of this type. I increased the radius to a number I'm certain that there are other hotels (2 should have been fine).
//maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/nearbysearch/json?location=32.800870,-96.830803&radius=25&name=Marriot%20Sheraton%20W&key=
Result from call:
{
html_attributions: [ ],
results: [ ],
status: "ZERO_RESULTS"
}
Thanks!
The radius of 25m appears to be too small and the name is not a subset of any place names in the area. Were you trying to get any places with a name of Marriot, Sheraton, or W? I don't believe the implementation works that way and instead it looks for a place with "Marriot Sheraton W" in the name.
If you change radius to 400 and name to Sheraton, then you do get the nearby "Sheraton Suites Market Center Dallas".
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/nearbysearch/json?location=32.800870,-96.830803&radius=400&name=Sheraton&key=[key]
I'm trying to use the NDFD (National Digital Forecast Database) to get current temperature and relative humidity given a Lat and Long using their REST based service.
The issue at hand:
I can't match the 'current observation data' WITH the 'results' I get back from the REST-service.
The setup:
Location:
* Apple (1-infinite loop, Cupertino, California)
* Lat = 37.33; Lon = -122.03
If I issue the following REST-call:
http://www.weather.gov/forecasts/xml/sample_products/browser_interface/ndfdXMLclient.php?lat=37.33&lon=-122.03&product=time-series&begin=2009-06-21T17:12:35&end=2009-06-21T17:12:35&appt=appt&rh=rh&temp_r=temp_r&temp=temp
Note 1: I'm passing the begin and end time in UTC. They're the same because I'm
looking for just a single-point-in-time: the latest observed
temp and relative humidity.
AND, then compare it to what is the closet reporting stations (San Jose International Airport, CA - KSJC - 37.37N 121.93W) # http://www.weather.gov/xml/current_obs/KSJC.xml
** I can never get them to MATCH. **
Note 2: The nearest reporting station is return back from the REST call
as well, so I know I'm comparing Location apples to Location apples.
I've had two ideas:
1: I'm doing something wrong with how I'm passing in the begin/end times into the REST call...
2: You can't get 'current observed data' the way I'm trying to...
Lastly:
I've found a solution using outoftime's NOAA ruby lib , [it parses an observation stations YAML file to find the nearest one given Lat/Lng then goes directly to that station via its identifier i.e. http://www.weather.gov/xml/current_obs/KSJC.xml].... but it just feels like I may be missing something obvious here and would like to use the REST-based interface ;)
Any help or pointers would be appreciated!
Thanks!
It looks like the service you are calling isn't for current data. Judging by the URL and the XML results it seems to be for forecasts. You can also put in future dates to get future forecast data. It expects the dates to be in the -0700 time zone according to the response. I'm not sure which service you should be calling to get the data you want though.
I know that this is an old question, but this is what I'm using to get current weather conditions: http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=43.09110&lon=-79.0162&unit=0&lg=english&FcstType=dwml
Found this api/link yesterday. Its still developmental (operation-mode="developmental"):
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=37.33&lon=-122.03&FcstType=dwml
If you want the "current" observation, you use the XML here:
http://w1.weather.gov/xml/current_obs/seek.php?state=or&Find=Find
e.g.,:
http://w1.weather.gov/xml/current_obs/KAST.xml
If you click on the link you'll get a rendered page. However, if you pull from it using normal rest methods or just wget, it delivers an xml file.