I’ve been working on the Google Places API for the past few weeks and am still facing a huge problem getting relevant results to the user.
I am working on Locations located next to the search query API
I'm on Oxford Road, in Manchester, England, UK, and I want all the airports near me.
Here is my request to get all airports nearby with a radius of = 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
This is the answer that I get (basically I get too many items, many of them are not airports, but for some reason they are connected to airports, they are not estimated by distance at all, and they are only 20 results, the rest are shown on the following pages, etc.):
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Here is the same query, but I am trying to rank them by distance, so I take rankby = distance, and for this I have to 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 have to get the same results as above, but with results estimated by distance. As you can see below, there must be something really wrong in the API, I'm sure that I'm not doing anything wrong, I'm really sorry that I'm wrong.
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