Google Maps: how to get country, state/province/re

Question

I need a list of countries, states & cities based on a collection of lat/long values I have. I need to store this information in a manner that hierarchy is preserve and without duplicates (e.g. "USA" and "United States" and "United States of America" are the same country; I only want one instance of this country in my database).

Is this possible to do with Google Map API?

Answer 1

Just try this code this code work with me

var posOptions = {timeout: 10000, enableHighAccuracy: false};
$cordovaGeolocation.getCurrentPosition(posOptions).then(function (position) {
var lat = position.coords.latitude;
var long = position.coords.longitude;
 //console.log(lat +"          "+long);
$http.get('https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?latlng=' + lat + ',' + long + '&key=your key here').success(function (output) {
//console.log( JSON.stringify(output.results[0]));
//console.log( JSON.stringify(output.results[0].address_components[4].short_name));
var results = output.results;
if (results[0]) {
//console.log("results.length= "+results.length);
//console.log("hi "+JSON.stringify(results[0],null,4));
for (var j = 0; j < results.length; j++){
 //console.log("j= "+j);
//console.log(JSON.stringify(results[j],null,4));
for (var i = 0; i < results[j].address_components.length; i++){
 if(results[j].address_components[i].types[0] == "country") {
 //this is the object you are looking for
  country = results[j].address_components[i];
 }
 }
 }
 console.log(country.long_name);
 console.log(country.short_name);
 } else {
 alert("No results found");
 console.log("No results found");
 }
 });
 }, function (err) {
 });

Answer 2

 <div id="location"></div>
        <script>
            window.onload = function () {
                var startPos;
                var geoOptions = {
                    maximumAge: 5 * 60 * 1000,
                    timeout: 10 * 1000,
                    enableHighAccuracy: true
                }


                var geoSuccess = function (position) {
                    startPos = position;
                    geocodeLatLng(startPos.coords.latitude, startPos.coords.longitude);

                };
                var geoError = function (error) {
                    console.log('Error occurred. Error code: ' + error.code);
                    // error.code can be:
                    //   0: unknown error
                    //   1: permission denied
                    //   2: position unavailable (error response from location provider)
                    //   3: timed out
                };

                navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(geoSuccess, geoError, geoOptions);
            };
            function geocodeLatLng(lat, lng) {
                var geocoder = new google.maps.Geocoder;
                var latlng = {lat: parseFloat(lat), lng: parseFloat(lng)};
                geocoder.geocode({'location': latlng}, function (results, status) {
                    if (status === 'OK') {
                        console.log(results)
                        if (results[0]) {
                            document.getElementById('location').innerHTML = results[0].formatted_address;
                            var street = "";
                            var city = "";
                            var state = "";
                            var country = "";
                            var zipcode = "";
                            for (var i = 0; i < results.length; i++) {
                                if (results[i].types[0] === "locality") {
                                    city = results[i].address_components[0].long_name;
                                    state = results[i].address_components[2].long_name;

                                }
                                if (results[i].types[0] === "postal_code" && zipcode == "") {
                                    zipcode = results[i].address_components[0].long_name;

                                }
                                if (results[i].types[0] === "country") {
                                    country = results[i].address_components[0].long_name;

                                }
                                if (results[i].types[0] === "route" && street == "") {

                                    for (var j = 0; j < 4; j++) {
                                        if (j == 0) {
                                            street = results[i].address_components[j].long_name;
                                        } else {
                                            street += ", " + results[i].address_components[j].long_name;
                                        }
                                    }

                                }
                                if (results[i].types[0] === "street_address") {
                                    for (var j = 0; j < 4; j++) {
                                        if (j == 0) {
                                            street = results[i].address_components[j].long_name;
                                        } else {
                                            street += ", " + results[i].address_components[j].long_name;
                                        }
                                    }

                                }
                            }
                            if (zipcode == "") {
                                if (typeof results[0].address_components[8] !== 'undefined') {
                                    zipcode = results[0].address_components[8].long_name;
                                }
                            }
                            if (country == "") {
                                if (typeof results[0].address_components[7] !== 'undefined') {
                                    country = results[0].address_components[7].long_name;
                                }
                            }
                            if (state == "") {
                                if (typeof results[0].address_components[6] !== 'undefined') {
                                    state = results[0].address_components[6].long_name;
                                }
                            }
                            if (city == "") {
                                if (typeof results[0].address_components[5] !== 'undefined') {
                                    city = results[0].address_components[5].long_name;
                                }
                            }

                            var address = {
                                "street": street,
                                "city": city,
                                "state": state,
                                "country": country,
                                "zipcode": zipcode,
                            };

                            document.getElementById('location').innerHTML = document.getElementById('location').innerHTML + "<br/>Street : " + address.street + "<br/>City : " + address.city + "<br/>State : " + address.state + "<br/>Country : " + address.country + "<br/>zipcode : " + address.zipcode;
                            console.log(address);
                        } else {
                            window.alert('No results found');
                        }
                    } else {
                        window.alert('Geocoder failed due to: ' + status);
                    }
                });
            }
        </script>

        <script async defer
                src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=YOUR_API_KEY">
        </script>

Answer 3

You have a basic answer here: Get city name using geolocation

But for what you are looking for, i'd recommend this way.

Only if you also need administrative_area_level_1,to store different things for Paris, Texas, US and Paris, Ile-de-France, France and provide a manual fallback:

--

There is a problem in Michal's way, in that it takes the first result, not a particular one. He uses results[0]. The way I see fit (I just modified his code) is to take ONLY the result whose type is "locality", which is always present, even in an eventual manual fallback in case the browser does not support geolocation.

His way: fetched results are different from using http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=bucharest&sensor=false than from using http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?latlng=44.42514,26.10540&sensor=false (searching by name / searching by lat&lng)

This way: same fetched results.

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
<head> 
<meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no"/> 
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/> 
<title>Reverse Geocoding</title> 

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false"></script> 
<script type="text/javascript"> 
  var geocoder;

  if (navigator.geolocation) {
    navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(successFunction, errorFunction);
} 
//Get the latitude and the longitude;
function successFunction(position) {
    var lat = position.coords.latitude;
    var lng = position.coords.longitude;
    codeLatLng(lat, lng)
}

function errorFunction(){
    alert("Geocoder failed");
}

  function initialize() {
    geocoder = new google.maps.Geocoder();



  }

  function codeLatLng(lat, lng) {

    var latlng = new google.maps.LatLng(lat, lng);
    geocoder.geocode({'latLng': latlng}, function(results, status) {
      if (status == google.maps.GeocoderStatus.OK) {
      //console.log(results);
        if (results[1]) {
        var indice=0;
        for (var j=0; j<results.length; j++)
        {
            if (results[j].types[0]=='locality')
                {
                    indice=j;
                    break;
                }
            }
        alert('The good number is: '+j);
        console.log(results[j]);
        for (var i=0; i<results[j].address_components.length; i++)
            {
                if (results[j].address_components[i].types[0] == "locality") {
                        //this is the object you are looking for City
                        city = results[j].address_components[i];
                    }
                if (results[j].address_components[i].types[0] == "administrative_area_level_1") {
                        //this is the object you are looking for State
                        region = results[j].address_components[i];
                    }
                if (results[j].address_components[i].types[0] == "country") {
                        //this is the object you are looking for
                        country = results[j].address_components[i];
                    }
            }

            //city data
            alert(city.long_name + " || " + region.long_name + " || " + country.short_name)


            } else {
              alert("No results found");
            }
        //}
      } else {
        alert("Geocoder failed due to: " + status);
      }
    });
  }
</script> 
</head> 
<body onload="initialize()"> 

</body> 
</html>