I integrated the GoogleMaps SDK to pick Location of place by AutoSuggestion, I am using GMSAutocompleteViewController to get city suggestions, with this location for city selected I want to search for hotels in our database.
But city is getting different name in different countries. For my App need to be internationally I need to get the same results everywhere across the world. ( using the GMSAutocompleteViewController)
Some cities in India are showing differently in other parts of the world.
Eg.Mangaluru to Mangalore(old)
I tried to put the App Language and Region and to English and UK respectively and also tried to apply some filter like below.
GMSAutocompleteViewController *acController = [[GMSAutocompleteViewController alloc] init];
acController.autocompleteFilter.country #"GB"
After applying filter only that country results coming.
Any suggestions to get same type results everywhere.?
I want to get the same city results getting for the same search everywhere.
You can remove the filter for the country to get results everywhere.
Based on the documentation Place Autocomplete:
**language** — The language code, indicating in which language the results should be returned, if possible. Searches are also biased to the selected language; results in the selected language may be given a higher ranking. See the list of supported languages and their codes. Note that we often update supported languages so this list may not be exhaustive. If language is not supplied, the Place Autocomplete service will attempt to use the native language of the domain from which the request is sent.
For the same city result, unfortunately, currently you can use components to filter by country.
Hope this helps!
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Is there any way to give Google Maps API or a similar API a town name and have it return a random address inside the town? I was hoping to be able to get the data as a JSON so I could parse it with SwiftyJSON in XCode and use it, but I can't seem to find any way to get the address in the first place. If coordinates would be easier to get, then those would work too, as long as its random and inside the town borders.
You can try to use Google Places API Web Service. It allows you to query for place information on a variety of categories, such as: establishments, prominent points of interest, geographic locations, and more. You can search for places either by proximity or a text string. A Place Search returns a list of places along with summary information about each place.
A Nearby Search lets you search for places within a specified area. You can refine your search request by supplying keywords or specifying the type of place you are searching for.
A Nearby Search request is an HTTP URL of the following form:
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/nearbysearch/output?parameters
where output may be either xml or JSON values.
And if you want either address or coordinates, you can use Geocoding for it. Here i found a tutorial on how to use Geocoding in IOS.
I am saving photos with city names to server in my application. Firstly, I am getting city names with MapKit, by using latitude and longitude, and then saving photo and city name to database. Later when user want to search a photo, he/she writes the city name and I use autocomplete with Facebook Places (Graph API).
The problem is Facebook Places and MapKit might have different names (spelling). Even they are both in English. I am wondering how to query from my own server which have MapKit cities in it, with Facebook Places cities.
I assume it a is little bit more complicated as it seems first time. Until Facebook, Apple are not using the same data source for their city names it will be hard to find the cities where the name is not exactly the same if you are using the "raw" string, that you get from the FB places.
Maybe there is a much easier way to achieve it, but my first attempts would cover these options:
Save the geo points when you upload the photo, then find a library, API etc.. that returns you a latitude longtitude data based on the Facebook city name and then use this to query the closest result in your database (based on photo location)
2.
Suppose the user typed in a city name and you have a string value (call it rawCity) with the desired city name. Now rawCity should be contained in or be equal to the string that represents the city's Mapkit name.
Let's assign rawCity to a new string called searchStringCity and remove white spaces from it and make the whole string lowercase (non-ascii chars can make some trouble too).
Now you have two strings that should be added to a dictionary: /Pseudo code/
rawCity = Sample City Name
searchStringCity = yoursamplecity
fbCityDictionary = {rawName:rawCity, searchString:searchStringCity}
After you have the fbCityDictionary you're ready with the Facebook part.
As a second step you need some database related work, so next I would create a searchString column in my database and fill it with the "standarized"(remove whitespaces,uppercases,charachter coding stuff) name of the Mapkit type city name.
Now you can write a query where a db item's searchString value is equal to fbCityDictionary[searchString]. However it won't perfectly solve your problem, it will work when a whitespace or a lower/uppercase letter was the problem, but there are a lot of city names that doesn't has an english version and they can be much different in different map databases.
So you will be good for example cases like these:
Facebook version:
Sample City Name ---> samplecityname
Mapkit version:
Samplecity Name ---> samplecityname
These solutions can improve the results, but I would be curious to hear a better solution.
I am using Google Chrome and Google search engine as default. My current location is India. When i search anything, it gives me result from India. That's great.
Now, I want to have searched result from another country e.g. UAE. Where should i make the change to get the result from UAE or any other country.
There's a good artile here:
http://www.entrepreneurs-journey.com/322/how-to-search-google-as-a-local-in-any-country/
You can change the query parameter 'gl' value to your desired country to get the result by that country. for example ...
This will show you the results from japan
https://www.google.com/search?q=kangaroo&gws_rd=ssl&gl=jp
and This will show you the results from us
https://www.google.com/search?q=kangaroo&gws_rd=ssl&gl=us
Hope it clears.
Someone know some documentation of Yql Google News Search? I am trying understand the "geo" key values for the search.
This link show a example for the search.
Thanks and sorry for my bad english.
Cleber.
For details of the usage of the different keys on the YQL google.news table, see the source API's documentation.
In this case that can be found in the Google News Search API - JSON Developer's Guide, and the geo key is described as:
This optional argument tells the News Search system to scope search results to a particular location. With this argument present, the query argument (q) becomes optional. You must supply either a city, state, province, country, or zip code as in geo=Santa%20Barbara or geo=British%20Columbia or geo=Peru or geo=93108.
It goes on to say:
When using the geo property, please note the following:
Make sure the location you supply exists within the scope of your chosen news edition. For example, if you specify geo=Quebec for the Canadian edition of Google news, you probably won't get good results.
You can't combine geo with the topic property.
Some editions of News Search don't support the geo parameter. To test if geo works with a specific edition,
Go to that edition's landing page (for example, news.google.ca)
Click Add a Section.
In the Add a Local Section box on the right side of the page, enter a search query relevant to your desired location (for example, Quebec). You should now see a Local Results pane on the edition homepage.
If the Local Results pane is populated with results, you can use the geo parameter for that region.
Looking for a way to get a list of telephone area codes for a given latitude and longitude (and if necessary a given intl. code.) Note, I'm not talking about international dialing prefixes but the area codes within them.
For example, Denver Colorado is covered by the area codes 303 and 720. It's at 39.739 -104.985 and is in NANP 1. So given 39.739,-104.985,1 I'd like to get back [303,720].
Libraries, web services, DB's, or raw data that needs to be parsed into a DB, e.g., a web page of shape points, are all fine and the more global coverage the better, but just NANP 1 would be a great help.
Note I already use MaxMind and could turn the lat-lng into a fake IP and use that as the lookup key, but MaxMind claims only U.S. area codes (whether they truly mean U.S. or actually NANP I haven't tested) and seemingly only 1 per location (e.g. just 303 for Denver.) So it's a possibility, just not a great one.
UPDATE: I found some more relevant information, but no definitive solutions so I'm listing it here rather than in an answer:
I was able to find two U.S. databases http://www.area-codes.com/area-code-database.asp and http://www.nationalnanpa.com/area_codes/index.html (50% down the page, MS Access file.) The former includes lat/lng for $450 and the latter would require nearest-neighbor matching as KeithS talks about (it's probably the same DB underlying the NANPA City Query he found.)
Additionally I found information that implies Teleatlas has area code boundary maps and that ESRI includes area code shape files with copies of ArcGIS. Maponics seems to have data available: there's a Google Maps implementation of Maponics' data at http://www.usnaviguide.com/areacode.htm.
Wow. You'll definitely need some sort of pre-existing database of points. My first thought was ZIPList5 Geocode. It includes lat-long data for each active U.S. ZIP code, so you can throw this data in a DB table, index the hell out of it, and search by just about any geographic info you'd have access to. You can buy one copy for $40, with enterprise-level use for $100. Only problem is that this DB has only the "primary" area code for each ZIP code, so metro areas that have more than one (Dallas, Chicago, NYC) aren't going to show all of them.
You could try a two-pronged approach with some free data I found: for a given latitude and longitude, do a nearest-neighbors search of the data in the USGS Geographic Names Information System; it includes information on every human habitation center, and every named landmark feature, with lat/long coordinates of their centers. You now have your lat/long point mapped to the nearest town/city, ZIP code, county, and state. Now, you can compare that against this list of U.S. Area Codes, to find area codes matching any or all of the identifying information from the USGS. This is all free, and will eventually get you what you need, but you'll probably have to do some work to "massage" the two sets of data into something you can efficiently cross-reference, and/or you'll need to implement a good "search engine" that will accurately find nearest-neighbor named points, and then find area codes for locations matching the names.
One more thing to look at is NANPA, which administers area code assignment to begin with. I'm sure they have a more comprehensive downloadable DB, but the only free public access I could find was this search page, which will find area codes for any city with >20k people. You could turn your lat/long data into a city and state, and then hit this search page: NANPA City Query
Here is an option:
http://geocoder.ca/39.739,-104.985?geoit=xml
<TimeZone>America/Denver</TimeZone>
<AreaCode>720,303</AreaCode