Get nearby places Google API

You can do that with the Google Places API, you can give this Laravel package a try:

https://github.com/SachinAgarwal1337/google-places-api

I've never used it but it has the functionality you need

Google has nearby API to find the location near you.

Check this doc. https://developers.google.com/places/web-service/search#PlaceSearchRequests

When you add dictionacy with place at that time you have to also add latitude and longitude. So you can get near by you using query like as bellow:

DB::raw("6371 * acos(cos(radians(" . $lat . ")) 
        * cos(radians(posts.lat)) 
        * cos(radians(posts.lon) - radians(" . $lon . ")) 
        + sin(radians(" .$lat. ")) 
        * sin(radians(posts.lat))) AS distance")

Simple Full Example: https://itsolutionstuff.com/post/how-to-get-latitude-longitude-from-mysql-in-laravel-5example.html

Thanks for the answers, they are helping me find a solution!

This is how i would set up my project now:

User types in location -> Google API gets all nearby cities/villages from this location in a certain range and puts them in a array -> This array is then matched with all my entries

Would this be a performance issue? I have planed to have more than 1.000 entries and a "nearby" array could have 20 or 40 city/villages.

Or would it be easier to calculate the distance based on the coordinates, like @hdsavani suggests?

Thanks guys!

Hi guys,

fyi: i found this and i think this will be my solution:

https://developers.google.com/maps/solutions/store-locator/clothing-store-locator#findnearsql

:)

Hi guys my goal is to retrieve all the restaurants in a given city. The problem with Places Api is that I don't see how I can get ALL of them. First we are restricted by a certain amount and second we can only do a search near by so that means that we should divide the city in a lot of nearby searchs. Do you have any suggestions ? Thanks