My requirement is to get all the place names under a specific place category from address_components within 500m of a location specified by latitude and longitude. I am using Google Places API (Classic) and I am able to get the intended result using the following url call:
url = "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/nearbysearch/json?keyword=" & myKeyword & "&location=" & mylatitude & "," & mylongitude & "&radius=" & myRadius & "&type=" & myplaceType & "&key=" & myApiKey
I hope the variable names are self-explanatory. I am passing a keyword, location using lat-long, required type and my API key. It is working.
The issue is that I am being billed for (1) Places - Nearby Search, (2) Contact Data and (3) Atmosphere Data. Actually, I need only the result from Places - Nearby Search and I am unnecessarily paying for Contact Data and Atmospheric Data usage.
I googled extensively and there are mentions at many places that we can restrict the call through specifying "Fields" in the API call, but I could not find how to specify that to compose the url. Please help on this...
Please note that. I don't need Autocomplete solutions - most of the googled result give solutions in Autocomplete using places API. I am not looking for that. I just need the json which contains names of the places. Rest I can do.
