list_place_categories
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List the canonical place categories you can pass as category to nearby_places and search_along_route (and browse on with geocode). Each entry is a category token (the exact value to send, e.g. "fuel", "charging_station", "hgv_parking"), the aliases that colloquially name it ("petrol station", "EV charger", "lorry park"), and a one-line description of what it covers. Read this before guessing a category: a token that is not on this list matches nothing, and quietly returns an empty result rather than an error. Cuisines, brands and names are NOT categories — search those as free text. Sorted by category and identical on every call. Local lookup, no network, no quota.
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