Place Details

Fetch fields

If you have an existing Place object or place ID, use the Place.fetchFields method to get details about that place. Provide a comma-separated list of place data fields to return; specify field names in camel case. Use the returned Place object to get data for the requested fields.

The following example uses a place ID to create a new Place, calls Place.fetchFields requesting the displayName and formattedAddress fields, adds a marker to the map, and logs some data to the console.

TypeScript

async function getPlaceDetails(Place) {
    const { AdvancedMarkerElement } = await google.maps.importLibrary("marker") as google.maps.MarkerLibrary;
    // Use place ID to create a new Place instance.
    const place = new Place({
        id: 'ChIJN5Nz71W3j4ARhx5bwpTQEGg',
        requestedLanguage: 'en', // optional
    });

    // Call fetchFields, passing the desired data fields.
    await place.fetchFields({ fields: ['displayName', 'formattedAddress', 'location'] });

    // Log the result
    console.log(place.displayName);
    console.log(place.formattedAddress);

    // Add an Advanced Marker
    const marker = new AdvancedMarkerElement({
        map,
        position: place.location,
        title: place.displayName,
    });
}
index.ts

Note: Read the guide on using TypeScript and Google Maps.

JavaScript

async function getPlaceDetails(Place) {
  const { AdvancedMarkerElement } = await google.maps.importLibrary("marker");
  // Use place ID to create a new Place instance.
  const place = new Place({
    id: "ChIJN5Nz71W3j4ARhx5bwpTQEGg",
    requestedLanguage: "en", // optional
  });

  // Call fetchFields, passing the desired data fields.
  await place.fetchFields({
    fields: ["displayName", "formattedAddress", "location"],
  });
  // Log the result
  console.log(place.displayName);
  console.log(place.formattedAddress);

  // Add an Advanced Marker
  const marker = new AdvancedMarkerElement({
    map,
    position: place.location,
    title: place.displayName,
  });
}
index.js

Use the Place Overview component

Note: This sample uses an open source library. See the README for support and feedback related to the library.

Display place details with just a few lines of code using web components.

Figure 1: Place details information with five different size variations

What are web components?

Web components allow you to create custom, reusable, encapsulated HTML tags that are usable anywhere in the HTML of your web app. They are supported in all modern browsers and expose a framework-agnostic mechanism for encapsulating UI and functionality.

What is the Place Overview component?

The Place Overview component displays detailed information about millions of businesses, including opening hours, star reviews, and photos, plus directions and other actions in a premade UI in 5 sizes and formats.

What is the Extended Component Library?

The Extended Component Library from Google Maps Platform is a set of web components that helps developers build better maps and location features faster, and with less effort. It encapsulates boilerplate code, best practices, and responsive design, reducing complex map interfaces into a single HTML element. Ultimately, these components make it easier to read, learn, customize, and maintain maps and location-related code.

Get Started

To get started, load the Extended Component library with npm.

For best performance, use a package manager and import only the components you need. This package is listed on npm as @googlemaps/extended-component-library. Install it with:

  npm i @googlemaps/extended-component-library;

Then import any components you use in your application.

  import '@googlemaps/extended-component-library/place_overview.js';

After loading the npm library, get an API Key from the Cloud Console.

  <gmpx-api-loader key="YOUR_API_KEY" solution-channel="GMP_DOCS_placeoverview_v1"></gmpx-api-loader>

Use the Place Overview component tag with a Place ID of your choice. This one is a placeholder for a Google office in Auckland.

  <gmpx-place-overview place="ChIJVVVVnvlHDW0Rwyod-_ddhAw"></gmpx-place-overview>

There are five size variations of the Place Overview component. The default component uses an x-large size variation. In order to get other size variations, add and modify the size attribute.

  <!-- Try setting the size attribute to "x-small", "small", "medium", "large", or "x-large" -->
  <gmpx-place-overview place="ChIJVVVVnvlHDW0Rwyod-_ddhAw" size="small"></gmpx-place-overview>

For more details, check out GitHub or npm. To see components used in sample code, check out the examples page on GitHub.