mmm i don’t know if you can extract the place ID directly (i think that you are talking about THIS), but you could extract the latitude and longitude of the location (you can grab the searchbox and extract their value’s long and lat, so user have to write only once)
Its because when the user has another language setup, the location from google is retrieved in his language.
So, for example, if a Russian searches for Miami, then Miami would be saved as “Майами” in my database.
Then if an English speaking user looks for Miami in my apps database, it will not found it amongst the saved locations, although it is actually there (its just that it was saved as “Майами”).
Thats why I don’t want to save names or addresses but Google Places ID’s for each place in my database.
oh i get it, i don’t know if you can save the address in a default language. another approach could be saving the latitude and longitude of the place and when searching for places (assuming you are using a RG) you could grab each item lat, long:extract {something}. But not sure if it would work.
The other option would be manually setting the Maps/places API to get the ID in the request maybe?.
You could try also this plugin that is like a bubble map on steroids