Location Selection API

  • The Location Selection API helps developers find nearby places and pickup/drop off points for ridesharing and delivery services.

  • It provides methods to find nearby places, pickup points for a location, and pickup points for a specific place.

  • Developers can use Google-provided client libraries or their own libraries to interact with the API.

  • The API uses a RESTful interface with a base endpoint at https://locationselection.googleapis.com.

The Location Selection API allows developers to fetch a ranked list of nearby places and associated pickup and drop off points specific to ridesharing and deliveries.

Service: locationselection.googleapis.com

To call this service, we recommend that you use the Google-provided client libraries. If your application needs to use your own libraries to call this service, use the following information when you make the API requests.

Discovery document

A Discovery Document is a machine-readable specification for describing and consuming REST APIs. It is used to build client libraries, IDE plugins, and other tools that interact with Google APIs. One service may provide multiple discovery documents. This service provides the following discovery document:

Service endpoint

A service endpoint is a base URL that specifies the network address of an API service. One service might have multiple service endpoints. This service has the following service endpoint and all URIs below are relative to this service endpoint:

  • https://locationselection.googleapis.com

REST Resource: v1beta

Methods
findNearbyPlaces POST /v1beta:findNearbyPlaces
Find nearby places for a given location.
findPickupPointsForLocation POST /v1beta:findPickupPointsForLocation
Find pickup points for a given location.
findPickupPointsForPlace POST /v1beta:findPickupPointsForPlace
Find pickup points for a given place.