There are lots of ways you lot tin role the Places library on a Google Map. Here are a few maps which role the Places library to furnish a picayune local knowledge.
You tin combine the Google Places library with the Google Maps API Directions Service to exercise a directions finder which tin exhibit you lot stops along your route. Roadli is a overnice instance of a map which does just that.
Say you lot invention to displace from San Francisco to Palo Alto in addition to fancy a pizza along the way. You simply involve to operate inwards your starting in addition to ending locations in addition to 'pizza restaurant' in addition to Roadli volition display a suggested driving route with pizza restaurants along your journey.
The restaurants (or whatever sort of trouble organisation you lot wishing to halt at) are too listed nether the map in addition to each eating theater includes the fourth dimension that you lot volition direct keep to add together to your journeying to detour to this location.
Roadtrippers is a to a greater extent than polished version of this sort of trip-planning map. The application allows users to larn driving directions betwixt ii locations inwards the USA in addition to detect points of involvement along the route.
Using Roadtrippers it is possible to search for places of involvement in addition to expert places to eat, drinkable in addition to store along a planned drive. You tin search for points of involvement inwards a large make of categories, including 'attractions', 'accommodation', 'shopping', 'food in addition to drink' etc.
If you lot similar the await of i of the recommended points of involvement you lot tin easily add together it to your trip in addition to the application automatically adds the halt to the finished driving directions.
The Google Places library tin too hold out used inwards real-estate maps to tending household hunters discovery what sort of facilities are available close a property. Trulia Local is a neat instance of Google Places beingness used inwards a real-estate map.
Trulia Local allows users to search for properties with local information, such equally schools, restaurants, banks in addition to stores. Select the 'amenities' choice from the bill of fare in addition to you lot tin detect restaurants, banks, groceries in addition to gas stations which are close your searched for property.
Have you lot e'er left a bar at ii inwards the morn inwards desperate involve of a burger or pizza? What's Open is a handy picayune Google Map which allows you lot to search for nearby nutrient in addition to pizza establishments which are opened upward correct now.
What's Open uses the Google Places API to alone exhibit you lot establishments to a greater extent than or less you lot which are opened upward at the fourth dimension of your search. Share your location with the application in addition to all the pizza in addition to nutrient establishments nonetheless opened upward inwards your expanse are displayed on a Google Map. You tin fifty-fifty click on each establishment's marking to detect out how many hours are left until it closes.
One interesting thought is to combine indoor Street Views with the Google Places Library inwards fellowship to exercise a bar in addition to eating theater review website. Here's a picayune demo of this thought which I knocked-up inwards a few hours.
The Indoor Bars & Restaurants map uses the indoor Street Views of a expose of London bar in addition to restaurants in addition to thence overlays the name, address in addition to rating of the institution from the Google Places Library.
You tin too role the Google Places library with other information to tending users detect neat places to eat, drinkable in addition to visit. This is what Taxi Stockholm has achieved with a year's worth of taxi trip information in addition to the Places library.
Taxi Trails has taken the information from all of Stockholm's GPS enabled cabs in addition to used the Google Maps API to exercise a heat-map of taxi destinations inwards the Swedish capital. Taxi Stockholm believe that this heat-map is non alone a beautiful information visualization but it tin too hold out useful for tourists visiting the city.
If you lot are visiting Stockholm for the offset fourth dimension you lot tin role the map to detect pop hot-spots inwards the city. For example, if you lot are looking for somewhere to larn on a Sabbatum night, you lot tin refine the map to exhibit the nigh pop destinations for Stockholm cabs inwards the eve at the weekend. You tin thence zoom inwards on a hot-spot on the map in addition to select the 'Explore this area' option. This volition thence drib markers on the map showing you lot bars in addition to restaurants inwards the expanse from the Places library.
