Find Location Matches tool

  • The Find Location Matches tool helps verify and explore potential location mappings for points of interest (POIs) using Place IDs, names, or addresses for improved accuracy in product feeds.

  • While Place IDs are the preferred method for POI location specification, the tool also allows using names and addresses, but with a higher chance of ambiguity and mismatches compared to Place IDs.

  • This tool assists in obtaining Place IDs for POIs without requiring the Places API, and it indicates the eligibility of POIs for free listings based on their touristic relevance.

  • Users can input POI information via a free-form field or upload a plain text file containing multiple POI search terms (up to 1,000 entries), with each line representing one search term, excluding latitude and longitude coordinates.

  • Results from the Find Location Matches tool can be downloaded as a CSV file for further analysis and record-keeping.

Overview

Multiple options are available for specifying the location of a POI in the product feed. The preferred method is to provide the Place ID of a POI as this method has the highest degree of accuracy. The other two available options are to use the name and address of a POI (less preferred) or latitude & longitude information (least preferred). However, in these cases the resulting mappings are more ambiguous and mismatched locations are more likely.

The new Find Location Matches tool in Action Center lets you to:

  • Explore and verify potential location mappings for POIs based on Place ID, name or address and helps to resolve ambiguities concerning your products.
  • Obtain the Place ID of a POI without having to use the Places API.
  • Learn about the eligibility of a POI (see below).

Free listings eligibility

Only POIs that have a certain touristic relevance are eligible for displaying ticketing information of related products on surfaces like Google Search. The Free listings eligibility field denotes whether a returned POI can be shown as a Free Listings Admissions and Experiences.

Usage

Use the free-form input field to enter information identifying a POI. The supported information includes Place IDs, POI names and address information. Latitude and longitude coordinates are not supported.

Find Location Matches tool

You can use the file upload feature to research multiple POIs at the same time. The input file should be a plain text file without formatting information. Each line of the file input corresponds to one search term in the free-form search field. See the following for an example.

Eiffel Tower, 5 Av. Anatole France, 75007 Paris, France

PcOOChIJLUp3I07jZClu5k

Disneyland Paris, Bd de Parc, 77700 Coupvray, France

To save results returned by the tool for later inspection, click the ellipsis (⋮) button to download a CSV file containing the results.