How to get location name?

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We set up the Google Maps API, but it is only pulling in the address. How do you get it to pull in the name of the place?

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If you’re only getting the address, that means Bubble is pulling data from the Geocoding API, and that api simply doesn’t return the place name. It only knows how to give you coordinates and formatted addresses. To get the actual name of the place, you need to switch the call to the google places api instead. That’s the one that returns things like the business name, the place title, opening hours, ratings, all of that.

Once you hook your input or workflow into the places endpoint instead of geocoding, the name will show up immediately. If you want, I can tell you exactly which places call to use depending on how you’re collecting the location.

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Let me try this out. Any more info would be great.

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Alright, you can go ahead and try it out

We can anytime

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