Get parking information

The SearchDestinations method of the Geocoding API now includes detailed parking information for destinations. This data can help users plan their journey by:

• Understanding what parking facilities to expect upon arrival.
• Gauging how much time to allocate for finding parking.

Request parking information

To receive parking information, you must include destinations.parkingOptions in your request's field mask. Use the X-Goog-FieldMask header to specify the fields you want in the response.

Example cURL request

 curl  
-X  
POST  
-d  
 '{ 
 "place": "places/ChIJY8sv5-i2j4AR_S6BlDDR42w" 
 }' 
  
 \ 
-H  
 'Content-Type: application/json' 
  
 \ 
-H  
 "X-Goog-Api-Key: API_KEY" 
  
 \ 
-H  
 "X-Goog-FieldMask: destinations.primary.place,destinations.parkingOptions" 
  
 \ 
https://geocode.googleapis.com/v4alpha/geocode/destinations 

Understand the response

If requested, the Destination object in the response will contain a parkingOptions field.

parkingOptions

This object contains details about the parking situation at the destination.

• Parking Types:Boolean flags indicate the availability of specific parking types:

  • freeParkingLot : True if free lot parking is available.
  • paidParkingLot : True if paid lot parking is available.
  • freeStreetParking : True if free street parking is available.
  • paidStreetParking : True if paid street parking is available.
  • valetParking : True if valet parking is available.
  • freeGarageParking : True if free garage parking is available.
  • paidGarageParking : True if paid garage parking is available.

• Availability:An enum indicating the general difficulty of finding parking:

  • AVAILABILITY_UNSPECIFIED : Parking availability information is not available.
  • PLENTY : Typically easy to find parking.
  • SOMEWHAT_DIFFICULT : Finding parking can be challenging.
  • DIFFICULT : Finding parking is often very difficult.

Example response snippet

  { 
  
 "destinations" 
 : 
  
 [ 
  
 { 
  
 "primary" 
 : 
  
 { 
  
 "place" 
 : 
  
 "places/ChIJY8sv5-i2j4AR_S6BlDDR42w" 
  
 // ... other primary place fields 
  
 }, 
  
 "parkingOptions" 
 : 
  
 { 
  
 "freeParkingLot" 
 : 
  
 true 
 , 
  
 "paidParkingLot" 
 : 
  
 false 
 , 
  
 "freeStreetParking" 
 : 
  
 true 
 , 
  
 "paidStreetParking" 
 : 
  
 true 
 , 
  
 "valetParking" 
 : 
  
 false 
 , 
  
 "freeGarageParking" 
 : 
  
 false 
 , 
  
 "paidGarageParking" 
 : 
  
 true 
 , 
  
 "availability" 
 : 
  
 "SOMEWHAT_DIFFICULT" 
  
 } 
  
 // ... other destination fields 
  
 } 
  
 ] 
 } 
 

Feedback

This is an experimental feature of the Geocoding API. We would appreciate feedback at geocoding-feedback-channel@google.com .