Resolve a free-form address or place name to coordinates, a canonical formatted address, and a place_id. region is a ccTLD bias (e.g. 'au'; default from the MAPS_REGION env var) — results elsewhere still resolve, just rank lower.

Resolve coordinates to the nearest street address(es).

Find businesses/points of interest by free-text query (e.g. 'vet near Potts Point', 'best coffee Surry Hills'). Returns name, address, rating, open-now, phone, and place_id per result.

latitude/longitude (+ optional radius_meters, default 5 km) bias results toward a point — or just put the suburb in the query. open_now=True filters to places currently open.

Full detail for one place by place_id (from place_search or geocode): weekly opening hours, phone, website, rating, price level, editorial summary.

Route duration and distance between two points — traffic-aware for driving, step-by-step for transit. THE tool for "when do I need to leave?".

origin/destination: address, 'lat,lng', or 'place_id:'. mode: drive (default) / walk / bicycle / transit / two_wheeler. departure_time: RFC3339 (e.g. '2026-07-05T08:30:00+10:00'), must be now-or-future; empty means now. For driving, the result includes the delay vs the no-traffic baseline. arrival_time: RFC3339 "be there by" time — transit mode only (the Routes API restriction). The transit answer lists each leg: line, stops, and clock times, so "leave by" falls straight out. include_tolls: for drive/two_wheeler, adds an estimated toll cost (requests an extra computation — off by default).

Find places around a point by TYPE ('what's near me') — the typed complement to place_search's free-text queries.

latitude/longitude: center of the search circle. included_types: comma-separated place types, e.g. 'pharmacy', 'restaurant,cafe', 'ev_charging_station' (Places API type table); empty returns prominent places of any type. radius_meters: search radius (default 1500, max 50000). max_results: max places (default 5, max 20). rank_by_distance: True ranks nearest-first instead of by prominence.

IANA time zone + UTC offset (incl. DST) at coordinates. timestamp (unix epoch seconds) evaluates DST at a specific moment; 0 = now.