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Re:Trip planning on Android phone turned off for now by arnath on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @06:17AM (#21451344)
This seems like a reasonable place to ask this: Is there an alternative available to Google Places Text Search? E.g., I provide a query that's something like "hardware stores" and a location and I get back a list of hardware stores within the location?

As far as I can tell, the geocoding APIs from stuff like MapBox or Pelias aren't intended for this use case (more like finding a specific hardware store).

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Re:Trip planning on Android phone turned off for now by tuukkah on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @06:40AM (#21451448)
At least Nominatim can answer such queries, for example: https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search.php?q=hardware+st...

I don't think it would be difficult to implement in Pelias either considering that it already has the necessary data and can search for results closest to a given point or within an area.

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Re:Trip planning on Android phone turned off for now by NetToolKit on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @10:57AM (#21453479)
We at NetToolKit have implemented arnath's requested functionality using OpenStreetMap data (demo available at https://www.nettoolkit.com/geo/autocomplete). The problem that we have found is that while some categories have great coverage (e.g. restaurants in Portland), many categories do not (e.g. gas stations). Assembling this data is expensive, and hence either the data is available via well-capitalized players (e.g. Facebook Places Search: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/places/web/search/) and/or are expensive to use (e.g. Foursquare).
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Re:Trip planning on Android phone turned off for now by leoedin on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @08:18AM (#21452061)
I think Foursquare offer pretty much exactly that. They pivoted a while ago to focus on B2B location API stuff.
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Re:Trip planning on Android phone turned off for now by distances on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @04:50PM (#21467833)
Didn't they just recently pivot to doing place reviews instead of check-ins?
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