Do research on Google Maps / Places API

[mertakozcan]

As in requirements, we should use Google Maps API for location related properties in our application. There're many APIs inside Maps API, but I think the one related to our use case is Places. There're both client (Android, JS) and server-side libraries for Places API. https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/ All three teams should discuss how are we going to integrate Places API in our application.

P.S. We can clarify which API we're supposed to use with Meriç as well.

[mertakozcan]

As backend team, we're expecting frontend and Android teams to send us city and disctrict information of the event location so that we can enable users to filter events based on location. (il ve ilçe) #88

In addition to this, you should decide how user will select the location of event on UI. (For referance, you might use something like this.)

I think Google Places API is suitable for our situation if event locations will be specific places. (For example, you can select a theater, cafe or any specific venue easily with Google Places API and then it'll have a unique ID provided by Google. We can store the name and ID of the venue in our database. However, if you believe that events can be at any location --which seems weird to me-- Google Places API won't be enough.)

[kirbiyik]

@atifemreyuksel Could you examine some example usages of Google API for our system?

[atifemreyuksel]

Okay, I will search some examples for frontend.

[cerob]

As backend team, we expect frontend and android teams come up with a common data fields. If you are planning to use Google API, it should be trivial.

[atifemreyuksel]

We already use places api in showing event page. Also, we can use reverse geocoding api in google in create event. Hence, we can take the latitude and longitude of the event place with marker. Then, we convert it to related address. Is it useful for backend?

[mertakozcan]

For location model, we now have city, disctrict, google_place_id, name, lat, lng fields. Android team should also use these fields for location-related things for events.

Special thanks to @atifemreyuksel, for his guidance about this issue.