Way to see if a Google Maps place is verified/claimed without access to someones GMB account

Question

Is there a way to see if a Google Maps place is verified/claimed on GMB? At the moment we use the place details API to get the details for a specific location. However the place details API does not provide us with a way to see if the location has been verified/claimed.

The problem is that we don't have access to the GMB account for the found location so we can't check if the "place_id" in the GMB response is equal to the one we use for getting the place details.

Answer 1

Unfortunately, the verified/claimed property of the business place is not exposed in the Places API at the moment. I can see a feature request in the Google issue tracker to add verified/claimed field in the response of place details:

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/35819976

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