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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 (New) (Preview) provides your app with the same type-ahead-search behavior of the Google Maps search field.

Get place data

Use Place Details (New) to retrieve detailed information about places.

References

Place class Data Fields lists all supported place data field values.

Place class Data Types lists all supported place type values.

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