问题
I have a list of named locations and a set of lat/lng bounds that I want to plug in to the Google Maps API and have it find the locations for me. The names can be very vague, like simply "the boarding school". Using the lat/lng bounds, is there a way I can get GMaps to find these vaguely named locations within the coordinates provided?
My application is web-based and powered by Python Flask in the backend. I've tried looking into Maps' Place Search, but it seems like it can only 'prefer' a certain area to search in, and with my vague place names, it doesn't do well:
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/findplacefromtext/xml?input=beach&inputtype=textquery&fields=formatted_address,geometry&locationbias=rectangle:43.3145,-79.8236|43.3490,-79.7741&key=XXXXXXX
This query has a bias covering part of Burlington, ON, but the result is in the neighbouring town of Oakville, significantly out of bounds. If you perform the search with the term "Burlington beach" instead however, it finds the beach that is within bounds.
I need the query to find the beach in Burlington, simply given the term "beach", and bounds that said beach falls within.
Edit: here are my HTTP requests+headers in both Chrome and Edge when testing the original query and Evan's smaller query (URL in comments):
==== Google Chrome: Original Request ====
:authority: maps.googleapis.com
:method: GET
:path: /maps/api/place/findplacefromtext/json?input=beach&inputtype=textquery&fields=formatted_address,geometry&locationbias=rectangle:43.3145,-79.8236|43.3490,-79.7741&key=
:scheme: https
accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3
accept-encoding: gzip, deflate, br
accept-language: en-CA,en;q=0.9,it;q=0.8,el-GR;q=0.7,el;q=0.6
cache-control: max-age=0
dnt: 1
sec-fetch-mode: navigate
sec-fetch-site: none
sec-fetch-user: ?1
upgrade-insecure-requests: 1
user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/76.0.3809.132 Safari/537.36
x-client-data: CIi2yQEIprbJAQjBtskBCKmdygEIup/KAQioo8oBCOKoygEIl63KAQjNrcoBCMqvygEIh7TKARjwsMoB
==== Google Chrome: Evan's Request ====
:authority: maps.googleapis.com
:method: GET
:path: /maps/api/place/findplacefromtext/json?input=beach&inputtype=textquery&fields=formatted_address,geometry&locationbias=rectangle:43.3145,-79.8236|43.3490,-79.800879&key=
:scheme: https
accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3
accept-encoding: gzip, deflate, br
accept-language: en-CA,en;q=0.9,it;q=0.8,el-GR;q=0.7,el;q=0.6
cache-control: max-age=0
dnt: 1
sec-fetch-mode: navigate
sec-fetch-site: none
sec-fetch-user: ?1
upgrade-insecure-requests: 1
user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/76.0.3809.132 Safari/537.36
x-client-data: CIi2yQEIprbJAQjBtskBCKmdygEIup/KAQioo8oBCOKoygEIl63KAQjNrcoBCMqvygEIh7TKARjwsMoB
==== Edge: Original Request ====
Request URL: https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/findplacefromtext/json?input=beach&inputtype=textquery&fields=formatted_address,geometry&locationbias=rectangle:43.3145,-79.8236|43.3490,-79.7741&key=
Request Method: GET
Status Code: 200 /
Accept: text/html, application/xhtml+xml, application/xml; q=0.9, */*; q=0.8
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Accept-Language: en-CA
Cache-Control: max-age=0
Host: maps.googleapis.com
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.102 Safari/537.36 Edge/18.18362
==== Edge: Evan's Request ====
Request URL: https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/findplacefromtext/json?input=beach&inputtype=textquery&fields=formatted_address,geometry&locationbias=rectangle:43.3145,-79.8236|43.3490,-79.800879&key=
Request Method: GET
Status Code: 200 /
Accept: text/html, application/xhtml+xml, application/xml; q=0.9, */*; q=0.8
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Accept-Language: en-CA
Host: maps.googleapis.com
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.102 Safari/537.36 Edge/18.18362
回答1:
This inconsistency appears to be related to the following issue, reported in Google's Issue Tracker:
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/35822155
The language parameter influences the results you get from Place Search requests, and even more so with such generic/broad queries. So it's intended behavior for the API.
Potential alternatives to Find Place include using the Nearby Search or the Text Search services. These are more appropriate for ambiguous queries and you can filter out results that are outside a given radius+location.
Hope this helps!
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57913128/find-locations-by-name-in-google-maps-api-within-lat-lng-bounds