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"map stuff" is much harder to understand than your query implies. As an example

Have you tried understanding all the possible things that you can get in 'address_components' depending on the input params, the region you are querying from, the region you results are coming from, the geopolitical situation on that data, the entity that was matched etc etc

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/r...

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/r...

Don't forget entities in side of other entities like businesses within a mall.

Don't forget that the user might want a specific service from the bank. The "bank" label doesn't tell you if they accept street traffic, have live tellers, are just an ATM or a corporate office etc etc.



This is easy to solve... Just publish 'views' of the data simplified for common usecases, and also offer the raw data for those who like joining 50 tables to know extreme corner cases like if the bar down the road's wheelchair accessible toilet will be open during the summertime hour shift.




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