Google Places API returns wrong results

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This issue seems to have started today (2016-08-10) and is still ongoing as of this post. As of yesterday, the places api was returning correct results.

There seem to be 2 locations that are being inserted into api requests for all coordinate requests, these are:

HÃ´tel de Ville (Paris) (48.856924,2.3526841)
University of Illinois at Chicago Hospita (Chicago) (41.8696656,-87.6704474)

These places are added to all requests, no matter what coordinates or radius are provided.

Anyone else experiencing this, or is it some setting that I have enabled that is including these places by default?

This is the API in use https://developers.google.com/places/web-service/search

Faced the same problem since yesterday.....seemed like the results were returned no matter what the query — Vamshi G
– Vamshi G, Commented Aug 10, 2016 at 21:02
Bug has been fixed, invalid results are no longer there as of now. — J. Minjire
– J. Minjire, Commented Aug 12, 2016 at 9:19
Just to close the loop- this was tracked as: code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=10283 — kaskader
– kaskader, Commented Aug 19, 2016 at 12:33

miguev · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-10 11:51:31Z

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This looks like a bug, the same results came back from a request near the origin: https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/nearbysearch/json?location=-0.75,-0.75&radius=100&key=YOUR_API_KEY

Please file a bug in the Google Maps API issue tracker: https://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/entry?template=Places%20API%20-%20Bug

answered Aug 10, 2016 at 11:51

miguev

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Thanks for confirming. Bug submitted.

J. Minjire
– J. Minjire

2016-08-10 12:00:38 +00:00
Commented Aug 10, 2016 at 12:00

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