Google Maps API nearbysearch not returning the nearest locations

Question

I am working on an android app and want the checkin feature in my application. I want to get all the locations nearby my current location.

I have used the Google Places API and sending a request on the below url for getting the results.

https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/nearbysearch/json?location=28.4573585,77.0332349&radius=2000&key=AIzaSyByyUldmVJqsrB_yYGlVzWF92des4DbsZ0

I want all the results inside 2 Km distance from my current location.

I am getting some nearby locations but not getting the nearest locations which are 100 meters or 200 meters away from the current location.

How can I get them, do I need to pass some extra parameter in the above nearbysearch request.

Also, I need to order the places according to the distance. nearest places should come first in the results.

Please help me if anyone know how to achieve this.

Thanks a lot in advanced.

Answer 1

By default, each nearby search returns up to 20 locations per query. However, accessing additional results as many as 60 locations, can be done by passing the value of the next_page_token to the pagetoken parameter of a new search as shown in Accessing Additional Results .

Additionally, Nearby Search Requests can be refined by supplying keywords. You can put ordering on the results according to the distance by specifying rankby=distance in your search request and adding one or more of keyword, name, or type as required.