title: How to get the location of a place on google map
body: <p>i'm developing an android application similar to Google places app.</p>
  
  <p>I want a functionality to obtain the location of a place on google maps in my application. How do i achieve this? </p>
  
  <p>This is the use case:</p>
  
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  <li><p>Using GPS my current location's lat and long will be passed using the notification service.</p></li>
  <li><p>Then when i click on the button restaurant,the list of restaurants in that particular location will be displayed(all information is being retrieved from the server that i created using grails).</p></li>
  <li><p>Then i select a restaurant's name from the list being displayed.and then in the user interface there is a button called "MAP" . </p></li>
  <li><p>Upon click of the "MAP" button, the location of the restaurant i have chosen must be displayed on Google maps. </p></li>
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