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Is it possible to confirm if a place name exists for a specified coordinates via PHP?
In other words, is it possible to make a request to google maps indicating the place name and their coordinates and receive something if it exists or nothing if the place don’t exists at the specified coordinates?
You can use the Google Places API to search for a place by name in a specific vicinity and you’ll get a bunch of results back. It’ll be up to you to compare those results to the search term though and decide whether the match is close enough to consider it a duplicate/existing. There’s hardly a simple true/false answer for things as rather vague as place names and coordinates.