Find all places from a boundingBox

[sdfanq]

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.

[Maveric]

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

[sdfanq]

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

[sdfanq]

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 requires a search term.

Best regards,
Stefan

[Maveric]

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

[time4ostry]

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 findPlacesByCategory documentation
This way there would be only one request covering all the categories.