In Kagi Maps, bring in photos from Google Places

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Two sentence summary

Kagi Maps already takes in data from the Google Places API (which I find useful), but it doesn't take in photos.

I would like it to show me the photos directly in Kagi as well!

Some images, to start:

This is how to see more images on Kagi today:

But, it just shows a poorly defined Kagi Image search

Instead, the Google Places Photos are much more descriptive

Possible implementation details?

The Google Places API does allow you to fetch photos.

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/place-details returns a photos[] array with photo IDs
and then https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/place-photos allows you to use those individual IDs to fetch the photo image URLs.

Why is this useful?

Broadly speaking, this will allow the user to see high quality photos of a Place without having to navigate directly to Google Maps. This is helpful both for workflow and privacy reasons.

How might it be implemented? What would it look like?

Maybe the UI to see the photos would be similar to google's, or maybe it could be in just a photo carousel at the top of the infobox!