I want to call Google Places api to retrieve some filtered places. Does anyone know how I can retrieve all locations in US with coordination and radius? Thank a lot.
Get a list of all the locations that you need and then use google geocoding api to convert them to coordinates.
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I wish to calculate the distance covered by a flight from one airport to another using CIRIUM API. But unable to find the appropriate API endpoint. Is there any way to get this?
I've triend various API endpoints from the CIRIUM API references:
https://developer.flightstats.com/api-docs/#quickref
Thanks in advance.
CIRIUM doesn't support distance calculation or distance information any more. I've asked to support, and they have confirmed this.
I have been working on an app and I am using MapView from react-native-maps. I wanted to know how I could put points on the map based on the store's address? I do not have too much of a clue of how to convert an address into a log and lat. I would assume that the store owner would type in their address and that address would convert to long and lat? I do know that it would entail MapView.Marker. If someone can provide me with a youtube video, give me some advice or a link where I can read up on the logic of this! I plan to have multiple stores. I do know that this would probably include a database however, I am trying to achieve a working BETA version.
Here is an idea! When you open the app you are greeted with multiple bird scooters where the user can walk to. I wanted to provide the same effect rather when you open the app all the stores within a certain radius are there for your viewing pleasure.
Thank you in advance!
To convert an address to lat/long coordinates you need to use a geocoding service. Here is an example if you use Google Maps: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/geocoding-simple
I am working on Google map places API and I am new to this. I created a sample project where I am able to retrieve latitudes and longitudes of nearby restaurants. But now I want to retrieve tattoo shops near by. But "tattoo shops" are not the supported type in google places API. Can some one tell me how to do that. I couldnot find any way of doing it.
Simply use keyword=tattoo+shops rather than type=restaurant in your request.
(I'm assuming you're using Nearby Search in the Google Places API Web Service.)
I used the pincode (400036) in the geocoding webservice, but got a location in China. The webservice is shared below.
http://maps.google.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=india&components=postal_code:400036&sensor=false
Ideally it should be a location in Mumbai (Bombay) in the state of Maharashtra, India.
Any ideas why this could occur?
Also, any other parameters that can be passed to make this particular pin code work?
Thanks and regards,
Anand
P.S.: I'm a Business Analyst, so my technical know-how and command of programming languages is pretty limited. However, I'll be most happy to receive help from the community here and pass it on to my dev team. Thanks.
Geocoding and working with real-world data is hard, and not even the great Google (no sarcasm, I'm a fan) gets it right all the time. Apparently there is a software or data bug in the Google API, since this works (added Country India to the component filter):
http://maps.google.com/maps/api/geocode/json?components=postal_code:400001%7Ccountry:IN&sensor=false
But this does not, and is not even filtering by country because it still returns Chinese results:
http://maps.google.com/maps/api/geocode/json?components=postal_code:400036%7Ccountry:IN&sensor=false
If you're a paying customer, you can contact Google for support here: http://www.google.com/enterprise/portal
You can use http://geoanalyzer.in for this. Google maps and google api are slighly different as Google Maps shows you results from both Google Maps API and also from Google places hence a lot of time you get wrong data in case of Google Maps API. Geo Analyzer solved this and has been built specifically for Indian addresses.
This is one of the few available solutions that is targeted for Indian address system complexity. I hope this will help.
Currently I have a website and database solution, however I would like to take 'Postcodes' from the records and place corresponding markers for them on a Google maps view.
Is this possible? And where would I start? Thanks
You can use the Google Maps Javascript API to place a map on your webpage. There is a good code example section. Markers should be easy to find.
The process of translating a postcode to a map location is called geocoding. There are code samples here too. The geocoding API has a usage limit and it takes time to do its work. SO if you have many postcodes, you might want to cache geocoding results.
There are many, many ways to get postcodes from a database to JavaScript. If you have an issue there, you'd better ask a more specific question, including the platform and language tag.