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Number of the places listed at a specific bbox


Currently having a problem about the number of the results when I search for the places by using bbox coordinates of an area.

My questions are:

1) Is there any solution to get more than 80 results per search? -might be 500 max-

2) (This question is for https://developer.here.com/) If there are more than 80 places at a specific bbox how do you select the results you list-because you list max. 80 of them?

Thank you.


Solution

  • On their page they already say they only list "popular places" within a specified area.

    https://developer.here.com/api-explorer/rest/places/explore-places-bounding-box

    They explain how "popularity" is being calculated as well. "The popularity of the result, e.g. number of clicks, number of times it has been saved as a "favorite".

    https://developer.here.com/cn/documentation/places/topics/search-results-ranking.html

    The conclusion is if you are using Search (Places) API by using bounding box coordinates of an area and if bounding box has more than 80 places in it, results are pretty inaccurate. Thank you.