How to get Coordinates from Google Places API in ios Swift

Question

I am using Alamofire and SwiftyJSON to auto complete Google Places. I integrated it well and good like this :

Now, what I need is if I select a place from the table view, it is selected in the text field. But how can I get the respective latitude and longitude of that place, so that I can add annotation of that place in MapKit

Is it legal to get details from Google Place API and display them on apple's MapKit? I got this doubt after seeing Viking's question

Rapping

First of all, is it possible? – Rapping

IIRC you need to make a 2nd query that uses the place ID – Logician

can you please explain – Rapping

Answer 1

You can get the coordinates from the GMSPlace object. See the documentation.

Regarding if you can use google places alongside apple map, no you can't. As stated in their Terms of Use

Make sure that any maps used by your app to show the location of places retrieved from the Google Places API for iOS are Google maps.

Mascara

That is the thing. I am using Apple Maps along with a text box. In that text box I have added Google AutoComplete Places. So if I dont add annotation for that google place in apple map, will that be okay? Can I use both of them in a single view controller? – Rapping

As long as you don't show the results in the map in any way it should be fine. I mean you can show the results in a tableview, but you can never add annotations on the map based on the data. – Mascara

Answer 2

Maybe i m bit late but stil as a tuttorial i m posting this answer you can simply get the coordinates like this

// Handle the user's selection 

public func viewController(viewController: GMSAutocompleteViewController, didAutocompleteWithPlace place: GMSPlace) {
    var lat = place.coordinate.latitude
    var lon = place.coordinate.longitude
    print("lat lon",lat,lon)

}

Teal

Okay where to call this method? – Northrop

It's showing same coordinate everytime – Northrop

@KrunalNagvadia I got same issue, always getting same coordinates, did you manage solve it? – Murillo