title: google places library without map
body: <p>I am trying to use the google places library for a nearby search request:
  <a href="https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/places#place_search_requests" rel="noreferrer">https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/places#place_search_requests</a></p>
  
  <p>i just want to pull the json response and put it in a html list, i do now want to show results on a map or something else. I do not want to use map at all. But in documentation it states that there has to be a map</p>
  
  <pre class="lang-js prettyprint-override"><code>service = new google.maps.places.PlacesService(**map**);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>in order to pass it as an argument in the PlacesService function. What i do now is adding a map with height:0 but it still consumes much amount of memory (i develop a sencha touch 2 app and memory is important). Is there any workaround of using nearby search requests without a map? I do not want to use the Google Places API as it does not support JSONP requests.</p>