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Exclusion from the Google Places API

I am wondering if there is a way to exclude certain results from a query in the Google Places API.

I would like to do this in two ways, if possible, but if someone can help me do one job, it would be very useful (or the answer may be that it is simply impossible, and if so, it will be )

  • Select a location type, but exclude another. IE I want to find “beauty salons”, but I want to filter out results that are also of the “hair care” type.

  • Exclude specific places, so if I'm looking for grocery stores but I don't like Kroger, I want to find "grocery stores not named Kroger"

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There is currently no way to do this in the places API.

In the public tracker there is a function request:

https://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=5601

However, it seems that Google has not put a high priority on this task. The only option for us is to show a public problem and tell Google that we are interested in this feature.

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