HERE Maps API - How to show a Place on a web page
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Introduction
In this example we will use the Nokia Places API to get information about a specific place and render that data on the web page with the use of the default template. There are a set of templates you can use for your purposes.
The information displayed consists of the name of the place next to a POI category icon, the address and contact details on a map centered to the POI icon.
To the results it is possible to add a list of reviews, ratings, accepted payment methods, photos taken.
The HTML page has a div element on which the information will be displayed.
In this simple example, we will only call the Place constructor using two parameters:
- targetNode - indicates where to display the place data.
- placeId - the id of the location for which data is to be fetched and displayed.
Implementation
This is a fully working example code in HTML and JavaScript.
Example code
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" />
<title>Sharing a Place</title>
<script src="http://api.maps.nokia.com/2.2.1/jsl.js?with=places" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
<style type="text/css">
/*<![CDATA[*/
.nokia-places-general-bubble a.nokia-share
{ color: #0099BB;
font-weight: normal;
font-size: 12px;
font-family: Arial;
text-decoration: none;
}
/*]]>*/
</style>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="Place"></div><script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Don't forget to set your API credentials
//
// Replace with your appId and token which you can obtain when you
// register on http://api.developer.nokia.com/
//
nokia.Settings.set( "appId", "YOUR APP ID GOES HERE");
nokia.Settings.set( "authenticationToken", "YOUR AUTHENTICATION TOKEN GOES HERE");
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
var basicPlace = new nokia.places.widgets.Place({
placeId: '250u0ts2-78a011f821684d489e709ad6a3329fac',
targetNode: 'Place',
template: 'nokia.blue.extended' });
/* * There are 3 predefined templates you can use:
* 'nokia.blue.place'
* 'nokia.blue.extended'
* 'nokia.general.place'
* 'nokia.general.placesmall'
* 'nokia.general.bubble'
*/
//]]>
</script>
</body>
</html>
Screenshot
The following screenshot shows the details of the place after making the search.
For more on Nokia Places API
Please check out the Places API full documentation and API reference here:
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