Google's Places API For Android, iOS Brings Better Location Awareness

When you tell someone where you are in the world, you rarely give out your longitude and latitude (unless your name is Walter White). That's because you probably don't know it, can't find it, or just plain don't care. Today, Google figured out longitude and latitude are cool and science-y, but not useful for consumers. With their new Places API for Android and iOS, Google is letting Developers tap into your location signal to actually let people know where you are, not your coordinates.

With the new API, Developers will get info on the place you are, replete with detailed info like a name and address. The new API also supports autocomplete, just like you find with Google Maps.

If the API can't identify your place, you can add it! A widget within the API allows for us to specify places we are. Next time you're grabbing a burrito from that sketchy food cart, drop a pin and tell Google why you're spending so much time there.

This has been lying in wait for some time, as the JavaScript library has been available for web apps for quite some time. now that it's coming to Android and iOS, expect Developers to implement it quickly.

Source: Google Developers