Google Places - 2 References for the same location?

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21341144

Question

According to my understanding of the Google Places API, one location is supposed to have 1 reference number, but doesn't seem to be the case.

Starbucks @ (43.844994, -79.47062699999998)

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Starbucks @ (43.844994, -79.47062699999998)

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Does anyone know why this might be? Both locations seem to be referenced from yellow pages, which makes this even more confusing...

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Solution

According to the documentation

reference contains a token that can be used to query the Details service in future. This token may differ from the reference used in the request to the Details service. It is recommended that stored references for Places be regularly updated. Although this token uniquely identifies the Place, the converse is not true: a Place may have many valid reference tokens.

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