Someone asked me about doing something like this:
- Run a query in Google Maps
- Draw a boundary around part of the results (as opposed to the whole window, but that would be ok in a pinch)
- Identify all of the businesses flagged withing the boundary of the query result
- extract a brief summary of data for each business obtained from their GBP data
- return it as a JSON array or something similar (eg, a spreadsheet of data)
The dataset size isn't going to be very large. Maybe something like restaurants in an area where there's a mall or near some hotels or a tourist area. Or car dealers along a road where they tend to cluster. So maybe a couple dozen or so would be identifed.
Can FNC Maps be used for this? I'm not looking so much for the mapping part but interacting with Google to find qualified businesses, read their GMB profiles, and extract a handful of data items for further investigation.
If I can at least get the basic business name, address, and maybe phone#, I have another service I can get the GMB info from.
