From the official website (https://developers.google.com/places/web-service/intro), we can see the following:
"The Places API is a service that returns information about places using HTTP requests. Places are defined within this API as establishments, geographic locations, or prominent points of interest."
This service can be used in several ways to get information about places:
- Get a list of places based on a user's location or a search string
- Get detailed information about a specific place, including user reviews
- Access to the millions of place-related photos stored in Google's Place database
- Query prediction service for text-based geographic searches, returning suggested queries as users type, and automatically filling in the name and/or address of a place as users type
In this section, we will be using the API to get detailed...
