Hi, I am working on a app which displays the near by places based on the lat,long and radius value. So i was looking for the best solution and found two interesting approaches
- Google local search JS api - http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/localsearch/ - Google places JS api - http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/places/ By analyzing the both i found that local search api(which powers the google maps search) is far superior and accurate than the places api. When i tried to find the places based on the category using these two approaches, local search api gives better results, but places api doesnt even return a single place for some categories The categories i tried are 1. train_station 2. grocery_or_supermarket 3. department_store 4. shopping_mall 5. bus_station 6. atm 7. bank 8. hospital 9. pharmacy 10. school 11. university 12. restaurant I got results (top 10 nearest places) for all the above categories using local search api (sample url below) http://www.google.com/uds/GlocalSearch?callback=google.search.LocalSearch.RawCompletion&rsz=large&hl=en&gss=.com&sig=your_sig&start=8&q=bus%20stop&sll=13.0485,80.226&gll=13016737,80194237,13080262,80257762&llsep=500,500&nogeocode=t&context=1&key=your_key&v=1.0&nocache=1328680126076 but places api only returns the data for train_stattion,university,atm. for the remaining 9 categories it doesnt return any results (below the sample url for places api) https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js/PlaceService.FindPlaces?1m6&1m2&1d13.033472541476415&2d80.22191790909585&2m2&1d13.087371458523586&2d80.27724809090421&2sen&6strain_station&callback=_xdc_._u94g0o&token=94686 So i came to the conclusion the local search api is far more superior and accurate, but its deprecated. As per the deprecation notice announcement in these links http://googlecode.blogspot.in/2010/11/introducing-google-apis-console-and-our.html and https://developers.google.com/web-search/docs/ google custom search replaced the old localsearch, but I can't find any documentation about how to use that new API for the same kind of thing as the local search Can someone clarify this?. any alternatives? I am about to go to production in few weeks, any help or a pointer greatly appreciated.. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-maps-js-api-v3/-/PLpqSMVGEyAJ. To post to this group, send email to google-maps-js-api-v3@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-maps-js-api-v3+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en.
