Reputation: 12517
Preface: I have contacted google and read the documentation. When this is finished it will display the map on the next page and have autosuggest on the first - I will not be violating the terms and conditions this way, so please dont start a flame war
I have set about trying to create my own minimal geocoder which geocodes without showing a map on the current page. I have found that there is no example code online for doing this! I am new to jquery but this is the best I could come up with. However, low and behold it doesn't work.
I am sure I have done something stupid, so I would appreciate it if someone could let me know if they spot any obvious reasons why this wouldn't work. I have never made a javascript before.
JSFiddle Link: http://jsfiddle.net/njDvn/9/
<html>
<head>
<script src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?v=3.exp&sensor=false"></script>
<script>
function getLatLng() {
var geocoder = new google.maps.Geocoder();
var address = document.getElementById('address').value;
geocoder.geocode({
'address': address
}, function (results, status) {
if (status == google.maps.GeocoderStatus.OK) {
var latLng = results[0].geometry.location;
$('#lat').val(results[0].geometry.location.lat());
$('#lng').val(results[0].geometry.location.lng());
} else {
alert("Geocode was not successful for the following reason: " + status);
}
});
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="initialize()">
<div>
<input id="address" type="textbox" value="Sydney, NSW">
<input type="button" value="Geocode" onclick="codeAddress()">
<input id="lat" type="textbox" value="lat">
<input id="lng" type="textbox" value="lng">
</div>
</body>
</html>
Upvotes: 0
Views: 352
Reputation: 5312
well first 2 things I can see are that the onclick
of the button is calling codeAddress()
, but you have not declared that function - you can change that to getLatLng()
and it should work then. Plus the <body onload
is calling initialize()
which is also not declared. While that should not prevent the geocoder from firing you should probably fix it.
Upvotes: 2