The Google Places API is a service that returns information about a "place" (hereafter referred to as a Place) — defined within this API as an establishment, a geographic location, or prominent point of interest — using an HTTP request. Place requests specify locations as latitude/longitude coordinates. Two basic Place requests are available: a Place Search request and a Place Details request. Generally, a Place Search request is used to return candidate matches, while a Place Details request returns more specific information about a Place. This service is designed for processing place requests generated by a user for placement of application content on a map; this service is not designed to respond to batch of offline queries, which are a violation of its terms of use.
