shawfactor

<p>LH Places creates a cpt called a place, places have geographical information (eg latitude and longitude) associated with them. Posts, pages, and others CPTS (eg events), can then be connected to a place and are searchable by location.</p>
<p>It  also includes a shortcode that can be used to find posts or pages that are connected to a nearby location, as well as a shortcode to add maps of various places to any post object.</p>


LH Places

LH Places is a complete solution geo enabling your wordpress website, it does so in a standards compliant way and does not create additional database  …

Dipankar Biswas

<p>Nearby Places Search: This Plugin integrates with the Google Places and GMap.</p>
<p>Shows a list of places of a certain type and configurable from the back-end<br />
settings within the specified radius for specified location.</p>
<h3>Requirement</h3>
<p>Google Maps API Key.</p>
<h3>Shortcode</h3>
<p>Shortcode : [nearby_places_search_code]</p>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<ol>
<li>
<p>In path (wp-admin/options-general.php?page=searchsettings) configure the search settings for<br />
places.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>You can change the type of place, the center point and the radius from the<br />
center point in the configuration page.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Copy the shortcode [nearby_places_search_code],Paste the Shortcode into Your Page , Post or any custom post type.</p>
</li>
</ol>
<h3>Configuration Settings</h3>
<ol>
<li>
<p>Location Types – Location Type is restricted to select only one value.<br />
See https://developers.google.com/places/documentation/supported_types<br />
for supported types.<br />
Default values set as: Atm|Bank|Hospital|Park|Restaurant|School</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Google API Authentication Method – ‘API Key’ or ‘Google Maps API for Work’<br />
As per method selection add ‘Google Maps API Key’.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Location – The latitude/longitude around which to retrieve the information<br />
of place. This must be specified as latitude,longitude.<br />
Default value set to 18.5204, 73.8567 (Pune, Maharashtra, India).</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Radius – Defines the distance (in meters) within which to return place<br />
results. The maximum allowed radius is 50000 meters. Default set to 1000 meter.</p>
</li>
</ol>
<p>Note : Default configuration value define at ‘config/nearby_places_search_config.php’</p>
<h3>Reference link</h3>
<p>https://developers.google.com/places/web-service/search#PlaceSearchRequests</p>


Nearby Places Search

Nearby Places Search: This Plugin integrates with the Google Places and GMap.

LH Places vs Nearby Places Search