Get parking information

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The SearchDestinations method of the Geocoding API now includes detailed parking information for destinations. This data can help users plan their journey by:

• Understanding what parking facilities to expect upon arrival.
• Gauging how much time to allocate for finding parking.

Important: This feature is available in the v4alpha channel.

Request parking information

To receive parking information, you must include destinations.parkingOptions in your request's field mask. Use the X-Goog-FieldMask header to specify the fields you want in the response.

Example cURL request

curl -X POST -d '{
  "place": "places/ChIJY8sv5-i2j4AR_S6BlDDR42w"
}' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H "X-Goog-Api-Key: API_KEY" \
-H "X-Goog-FieldMask: destinations.primary.place,destinations.parkingOptions" \
https://geocode.googleapis.com/v4alpha/geocode/destinations

Understand the response

If requested, the Destination object in the response will contain a parkingOptions field.

parkingOptions

This object contains details about the parking situation at the destination.

• Parking Types: Boolean flags indicate the availability of specific parking types:

  • freeParkingLot: True if free lot parking is available.
  • paidParkingLot: True if paid lot parking is available.
  • freeStreetParking: True if free street parking is available.
  • paidStreetParking: True if paid street parking is available.
  • valetParking: True if valet parking is available.
  • freeGarageParking: True if free garage parking is available.
  • paidGarageParking: True if paid garage parking is available.

• Availability: An enum indicating the general difficulty of finding parking:

  • AVAILABILITY_UNSPECIFIED: Parking availability information is not available.
  • PLENTY: Typically easy to find parking.
  • SOMEWHAT_DIFFICULT: Finding parking can be challenging.
  • DIFFICULT: Finding parking is often very difficult.

Example response snippet

{
  "destinations": [
    {
      "primary": {
        "place": "places/ChIJY8sv5-i2j4AR_S6BlDDR42w"
        // ... other primary place fields
      },
      "parkingOptions": {
        "freeParkingLot": true,
        "paidParkingLot": false,
        "freeStreetParking": true,
        "paidStreetParking": true,
        "valetParking": false,
        "freeGarageParking": false,
        "paidGarageParking": true,
        "availability": "SOMEWHAT_DIFFICULT"
      }
      // ... other destination fields
    }
  ]
}

Feedback

This is an experimental feature of the Geocoding API. We would appreciate feedback at [e-mail].