Places API for JavaScript

Search

Rich place content

Run searches for places based on their names, addresses, or even geographical coordinates. You can specify the center around which to search, the maximum radius around that center, the maximum number of hits you'd like to see, and you can use recommendations or suggestions based on previous results – the multiple options put you in charge of what your application offers.

The search functionality puts place content at your disposal. The users of your application can view a description of each place, with full address and contact details. They can also visit the related Web site, vie images or play movies and sound clips.

Rich UI components

Data API

The widgets in the API offer not only functionality to search and retrieve data, but also built-in components to display fully-fledged user interfaces, starting with a search box and ending with an interactive, paginated display of place details. What is more, as a developer, you can leverage the fact that this UI is fully template. Modify or replace the templates to suit your requirements and open up the world to you users.

If your primary focus is data alone, the API offers the tools you need. You can run searches and process the results as you require, whether through a custom display or by feeding the results to another application, using the Places Data API. The functionality is just as powerful as that offered by the widgets, but there simply is no user interface.

Access to tens of millions of places

Desktop and mobile browsers

The API rests on the power of our back-end server and a database with information on, quite literally, tens of millions of places.

The Places JavaScript API is suitable for development targeted at both desktop and mobile browsers.