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Maps and Places

Find and get data about places and locations.

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Find and get data about places and locations!

Connecting Google Maps with Rows gives you the power to find directions and places and enrich them with data, all in a spreadsheet.

Use cases

Things you can do when using Maps and Places (Google) with Rows include:

  • Find places by name or location and enrich them with data.
  • Find places within a specific radius including restaurants, cafes, gyms, schools, and more.
  • Geocode addresses or locations by converting them into their longitude and latitude coordinates.
  • Reverse geocode pairs of longitude and latitude coordinates into their address.
  • Find the directions between locations using several modes of transportation including transit, driving, walking, or cycling.
  • Calculate the travel distance and time for a matrix of origins and destinations.
  • Find the elevation of locations in meters.

About Maps and Places

Google Maps is a web mapping service developed by Google. It offers satellite imagery, aerial photography, street maps, 360° interactive panoramic views of streets (Street View), real-time traffic conditions, and route planning for traveling by foot, car, bicycle and air (in beta), or public transportation. In 2020, Google Maps was used by over 1 billion people every month. Google Maps offers an API that allows maps to be embedded on third-party websites, and offers a locator for businesses and other organizations in numerous countries around the world.

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GET_DIRECTIONS

Get directions according to your start and end locations. You can further define your search by choosing a mode of transportation or adding waypoints.

GET_DISTANCE_MATRIX

Retrieves the directions from all starting locations to all destination locations.

GET_ELEVATION

Get the elevation, in meters, for a given set of coordinates.

GET_GEOCODE

Get the latitude and longitude coordinates for an address.

GET_REVERSE_GEOCODE

Get the address based on latitude and longitude coordinates.