# Search on Google Maps

**URL:** <https://community.thunkable.com/t/search-on-google-maps/2983790>\
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\
**Tags:** beginner, help\
**Created:** [May 3, 2024, 9:19pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/search-on-google-maps/2983790 "2024-05-03T21:19:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![gabrielleonardo2111k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@gabrielleonardo2111k](https://community.thunkable.com/u/gabrielleonardo2111k)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2024, 9:19pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/search-on-google-maps/2983790/1 "2024-05-03T21:19:17Z")

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Does anyone know how I can make the user be able to search for things on Google Maps within my application? I added the text input and styled it as a search bar but I don’t know what logic to use to do the searches

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**Author:** ![tatiang](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/tatiang/32/55482_2.png) [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2024, 11:46pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/search-on-google-maps/2983790/2 "2024-05-03T23:46:47Z")

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You can use the Google Places API to find types of locations and then plot their lat/long coordinates on a Google Map. If you’re new to APIs, consider it a steep learning curve but there are some examples on the forums.

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**Author:** ![gabrielleonardo2111k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@gabrielleonardo2111k](https://community.thunkable.com/u/gabrielleonardo2111k)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2024, 12:03am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/search-on-google-maps/2983790/3 "2024-05-04T00:03:37Z")

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And how could I use it so that a user could see another user’s location? In the mobile application that I am creating, the idea is that there are 2 different types of accounts, the first of which has a map that shows the location of the second type of account that will not have the map, any tips?

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**Author:** ![tatiang](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/tatiang/32/55482_2.png) [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2024, 5:17am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/search-on-google-maps/2983790/4 "2024-05-04T05:17:48Z")

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I’m sure there are privacy concerns and user agreements related to that sort of app but ignoring that for now, you could store the user’s location in a cloud database such as Firebase and then display it on any other devices by retrieving that location from Firebase.   
  
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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/0/f/0f59f292712368bce16ff80133ae10de8a6f27e8.png) [@system](https://community.thunkable.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2024, 5:17am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/search-on-google-maps/2983790/5 "2024-08-02T05:17:58Z")

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