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Place Class

Overview

The Place class provides a simple API for using the Places Library, Maps JavaScript API, and supports modern usage patterns such as Promises. The Places Library, Maps JavaScript API supports the following features:

Search for places

Text Search (New) lets you search for place data using a text query.
Nearby Search (New) lets you search for nearby places by place type.
Place Autocomplete provides your app with the same type-ahead-search behavior of the Google Maps search field.

Get place data

Place Details (New) provides detailed information about places.
Place Photos provides access to high-quality photographic images from the Places database.

References

Place Data Fields lists all supported place data field values.
Place Types lists all supported place type values.
Place Icons shows how to use place icons.
Place IDs explains how place IDs work

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