Hafidz Zulkifli

A follow up from my previous post . After some digging and experimentation, was finally able to come up with a way to mass search coordinates of a specific location type (i.e shopping malls across KL). Basically there are a couple of services that you could use, depending on the output that you want. More on that here . So based on the guide, I know that what I need would probably be more or less covered with Radar and Nearby - since I basically need the coordinates and on a mass scale. In essence (since the full description is available on their website and I'd rather not overcomplicate things) the Radar Search service can give you up to 200 search results at a go, given a coordinate to start with. Sounds good - yes. So I gave the example a go. But they can only give you the coordinates in the result list - without the name of the place. You also get a place id for each those coordinate, but I somehow wasn't able to use that id and retrieve the place's name - so I sup...

For the past few days I've been trying to gather coordinates of places around KL, in the attempt to tag those places to our cell towers for a more in depth market analysis of our consumers. While one could in a sense get those coordinate manually from Google Maps, and jot down the coordinates on a spreadsheet - it seemed like "not-so-smart" solution and troublesome to do in the long run (ie. your boss asks you to find the number of customers that's visiting a particular shopping mall today, and tomorrow he wants to know the numbers of customers that visits golf courses in the outskirt of town. In such case jotting down the coordinates manually would be very time consuming  - not to mention crazy) Initial attempts include web scraping and looking into the source code of the map (more on that topic later). Somehow rather those didn't work well as expected. Hence now I turn to Google API, or more specifically - Places. There are actually a lot of stuff that ...