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I want to build a database of location coordinates for a particular category (say movie_theatre) for the whole country (say India) and NOT nearby places. Suppose there are 5000 such places. Here is what I am planning to use:

https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/textsearch/json?query=movie+theatre+near+india&sensor=false&key=My_key

Is there a better approach to do so? Also I cannot use the radar search as it is limited to a radius of 50km.

Thanks

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In specific case of movie theaters since they are based where people are settled, it makes more sense to do search in areas where the population lives; namely cities, towns, and villages.

To do this you need to get a substantial list of cities, towns, and villages from a national census bureau (in case of India, see here and here) and then do a search for each.

Also, see this answer.

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