Feature Request: Google places autocomplete widget to replace places widget

[stevenvandemoortele]

Algolia places is being removed in may 2022 so a replacement widget using google maps autocomplete, for users who are not javascript wizards that can build their own widgets, would be much appreciated.

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Hi @stevenvandemoortele,

Thanks for the suggestion.

In the first place, we plan to provide a sandbox of our new Autocomplete library with Google Maps in a near future.

It is not planned yet to provide a widget for InstantSearch but we will definitely keep that in mind!

[Haroenv]

For now, https://github.com/algolia/instantsearch.js/discussions/4764 and https://github.com/algolia/instantsearch.js/discussions/4904 will be where this would be discussed. In a future major version, the places widget will be removed, but likely without an alternative, as it had low usage