I am a researcher looking for data on how many establishments of a particular type existed in different cities in different years. Places API can tell me what exists today. Is there any way to access the information about the past?
For example, I can think of two ways:
- If Google stores all updates to the database, in principle it should be possible to actually find all establishments available in year X.
- Google can store the date when an establishment was added to the platform. That would allow to answer the question "how many of establishments that exist today were open in year X". Unfortunately, I don't see anything like "date created" in the attributes of a place in the API.
Would be grateful for any ideas about this.