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    <p>I have some data (establishment names with GPS coordinates) that I would like to pass to Google Places in order for it to return me the type of establishment (e.g., restaurant, bar, etc ...). I am completely new to any sort of web http request type things. The documentation <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/places/" rel="nofollow">here</a> makes perfect sense. I just don't know how to automate this inside a Java desktop app and I can't find any place to download a Java API for Google places.</p> <p>I thought I could just write some Java code to make the requests myself but I can't seem to get the response back from the server. For example, I tried this using Google's example (except I changed the API key to my own):</p> <pre><code>URL google = new URL("https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/search/json?location=-33.8670522,151.1957362&amp;radius=500&amp;types=food&amp;name=harbour&amp;sensor=false&amp;key=AIzaSyAiFpFd85eMtfbvmVNEYuNds5TEF9FjIPI); HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) google.openConnection(); connection.setDoOutput(true); DataInputStream in = new DataInputStream(connection.getInputStream()); //then try to read in the response </code></pre> <p>The program always stalls at connection.getInputStream(). Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong? Also, is there someplace where I can download the Google Places API as a jar file? Or, is there a better piece of software I should use for this type of categorization? Thanks!</p>
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    1. COLooks like your API key may not be valid. That said, based on your proposed use case, it may be in violation of the Google Maps (and by extension Places) API terms of service: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/terms.html - "10.1.3 Restrictions against Data Export or Copying."
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    2. COHi. Thanks for your comment about the terms of service. It turns out that my problem was related to the proxy server. When I went around the firewall, the code ran fine as is; however, in the end, I wound up not using Google Maps at all. I used a html parser to scrape the information from another site instead.
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