I've been working on the Google Places API for the past few weeks and still am facing a huge problem with getting the relevant results to the user.
I'm working on the Places Nearby Search Request API
I'm currently at Oxford Road, Manchester, England, United Kingdom and I wish to get all the airports near me.
Here is my request to get all the airports nearby with radius = 50,000 meters (which is the maximum)
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/nearbysearch/json?key=YOUR_PLACES_API_KEY_HERE&location=53.48,-2.24&sensor=true&language=en&rankby=distance&types=airport
That's the response I get (basically I get too many items, many of them are not airports but they are associated with airports for some reason, they're not ranked by distance at all, and they're only 20 results, the remaining results are in the next pages, etc):
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"icon" : "http://maps.gstatic.com/mapfiles/place_api/icons/airport-71.png",
"id" : "9f505cabdadb7197ffb84b818acdc3ac3fce45cc",
"name" : "S & D Priavte Hire",
"reference" : "CnRwAAAA57D6FFH01Gxgk7BqGYjfUfSRcaAwMRHCwDV5CvtAQeO75PQCCU5w-Duk8wlKKnAlRBj3twp6Nk5ku82FjTPJqoREtFTq5Pflns7qgmL93OGqLWX9CX20rVGsbMjCEfnsssffV6BHbCSAwXL56Ur57xIQbuFgTNy6Ysa1RM7fB9LMdBoU1PP_HQGM2S2HiDy97xb3erTDCXA",
"types" : [ "airport", "transit_station", "establishment" ],
"vicinity" : "Bank Street, Farnworth, Bolton"
},
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"geometry" : {
"location" : {
"lat" : 53.543852,
"lng" : -2.092759
}
},
"icon" : "http://maps.gstatic.com/mapfiles/place_api/icons/airport-71.png",
"id" : "3769101d2c781c74a23a184c2e931f546b83ed52",
"name" : "Delta Obstruction Lights",
"photos" : [
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"height" : 259,
"html_attributions" : [],
"photo_reference" : "CpQBhQAAAMm3QQydjgXQ4cd996TJZ_KTIPYBVpKR2K6nVbvZyi7bdzEYZecpeEs4FlRx796E_2yZKRYr4trVevDJHg11sgAVvqn7xgygZ1xGy0oFDiZTj8ikMJ_7TMpWcJEjDOmgkv2Wqh1YXy502jD5tjkNClraff4heeMA3CH8_URQ-QaR_tcClWKJxvMw6Tf98a5a8hIQj9xluQBkkLIKdQGJ3FsVaBoUH2pgm1XpBrehHstpqcuiSMiTe6E",
"width" : 347
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"types" : [ "airport", "transit_station", "establishment" ],
"vicinity" : "Delta House, Wrigley Street, Oldham"
}
],
"status" : "OK"
}
Here is the exact same request but trying to rank them by distance, so I do rankby=distance, and to do that, I must remove the radius parameter (as the API says).
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/nearbysearch/json?key=YOUR_PLACES_API_KEY_HERE&location=53.48,-2.24&sensor=true&rankby=distance&language=en&types=airport
This means that I should get the same results as above but with the results ranked by distance. As you can see below, there must be something really wrong with the API, I'm sure I'm not doing anything wrong, I really wish I'm wrong.
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"html_attributions" : [],
"results" : [
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"geometry" : {
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}
},
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"id" : "5b6645fe6106f298ea4668af5c64aaa1b5f80fec",
"name" : "Woodford",
"photos" : [
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"height" : 511,
"html_attributions" : [
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"photo_reference" : "CnRoAAAAVF8nRYcq0RxpyvxBSwXzVeZ6TNDhvcks4ohzofGBNN7Ty3EMQZ_Btl3pmaZjpKcGeEO78QJXEVFrh5pfuN_q7cNw1S74tbPq1wCH5b5zkxWIThIis_cuTXLsz7goPRT4GgUqfXvDnweesi6pofi0rRIQ6InuLRZas62Q4W8EO1Vl2RoUjxBe5uOgi7V5XpF6MceHVCg7Ot0",
"width" : 348
}
],
"reference" : "CnRnAAAA9WeWDs3Ua3ZhCMNY1MuYvBSuYNtLLE3aXySf_HUAiBynuwwKYMTGRIkIYeKUTWqO7LGCPNgF8Lh0aDkhFEhzkSvVvdtRQM6KnO0xEYC44wljANW4nYPV_2pJ_3tuLedgwP8AECT3dsnMlfhaVxpXIhIQ_rRFlMrjmL7YOFlMr3myURoU-5h4gwg5FnbUAYaFLLobyE2cKZA",
"types" : [ "airport", "transit_station", "establishment" ],
"vicinity" : "Manchester"
}
],
"status" : "OK"
}
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