The Google Places API contains over 150 million points of interest that you can add to your maps. Once you activate the service, you can then make search queries using get calls with the http class. The base address to make queries based on your position is the following:
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/nearbysearch/json
In the last part of the address, you can specify json or xml, based on the format you wish to receive. Before that, note that nearbysearch makes queries for places near a specified location. When using the nearby search, there are three required parameters and several optional ones. You must separate each parameter with the ampersand (&) character.
The required parameters are as follows:
- key: Your API key.
- location: The position around which you want to get the places. This requires latitude and longitude.
- radius: The radius, expressed in meters, within which you want to retrieve the results.
In our example, we have also used an optional...