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Google Places API
ByGoogle Places APIGoogle Places API

Google Places API

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What is Google Places API?

You can provide users data on location names, addresses, ratings, reviews, contact information, and atmosphere. Local guides and users submit tens of millions of updates every day, so you can count on accurate, reliable information.

Google Places API is a tool in the API Tools category of a tech stack.

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Rishikant Sharma
Rishikant Sharma

Feb 7, 2020

Needs adviceonGoogle Places APIGoogle Places APIGoogle MapsGoogle Maps

A huge component of our product relies on gathering public data about locations of interest. Google Places API gives us that ability in the most efficient way. Since we are primarily going to be using as google data as a source of information for our MVP, we might as well start integrating the Google Places API in our system. We have worked with Google Maps in the past and we might take some inspiration from our previous projects onto this one.

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