Overview
The Place class provides a simple API for using the Places Library, Maps JavaScript API, and supports modern usage patterns such as Promises. The Places Library, Maps JavaScript API supports the following features:
Search for places
- Text Search (New) lets you search for place data using a text query.
- Nearby Search (New) lets you search for nearby places by place type.
- Place Autocomplete provides your app with the same type-ahead-search behavior of the Google Maps search field.
Get place data
- Place Details (New) provides detailed information about places.
- Place Photos provides access to high-quality photographic images from the Places database.
References
- Place Data Fields lists all supported place data field values.
- Place Types lists all supported place type values.
- Place Icons shows how to use place icons.
- Place IDs explains how place IDs work
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