Find all places from a boundingBox

How could I find all places from a particular boundingBox ?

You provide:

findPlaces - it requires a searchTerm, but I want all places no matter the searchTerm
findPlacesByCategory - it requires a category
findRecommendations - I just want all places from a location, not only recommendations

I know I could just use findPlacesByCategory for all available categories, but that would be a waste of bandwidth and API requests.

Hi there, sdfanq!

I am chekind this right now from the team who is dealing with this API.
Actually I think that an enterprise feature , but you can do it by hand by taking the results back that you get from your search center and then filter them using BoundingBox.intersects().

Best Regards,
Marko

Thank you. That's what I thought too (this being an enterprise feature). I will do as you say and filter the results.

One more thing please, your answer infers that I must still use findPlacesByCategory for each category and then filter by boundingBox, right ?
Because the best thing for me would be to get all places from a searchCenter and filter by boundingBox, like using findPlaces, but like I said, findPlaces [B]requires[/B] a search term.

Best regards,
Stefan

Hi there, Stefan

Sorry for the delay and any inconvenience. I am in communication with the API team and I will provide you an answer, please expect it in 24H.

Best Regards,
Marko

nokia.places search supports either search-term or category-based search. If using a search-term is not an option then findPlacesByCategory is a definite choice. findPlacesByCategory function does not offer any wildcards/shorthands for "all categories" but it is possible to specify a comma-separated list of categories, something like:

category:"eat-drink,natural-geographical,<any-other-interesting-categories>"

All available categories are listed in [URL="http://api.maps.nokia.com/en/apireference/2.2.0/symbols/nokia.places.search.manager.html#.findPlacesByCategory"]findPlacesByCategory documentation[/URL]
This way there would be only one request covering all the categories.