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Basj
Basj

Reputation: 46373

Starting point for Google Places Autocomplete API

I've noticed that :

This is probably due to implicit IP geolocation.

How to force Google Places Autocomplete input field to "guess" the propositions in the area of a specified city? (in my case: Orleans, because my website is dedicated to users of this city)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1172

Answers (1)

Matej P.
Matej P.

Reputation: 5383

Try to read up on "Location Biasing" in the Google Places API docs. You can add location and a radius parameter to the request to return results mainly from desired area.

So your request might look something like this:

https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/autocomplete/json?input=SEARCH_STRING&location=ORLEANS_LAT,ORLEANS_LNG&radius=RADIUS_IN_METERS&key=YOUR_API_KEY

If you use google.maps.places.Autocomplete class, take a look at this section of Google Maps JS API v3 docs. There is a bounds parameters which according to the docs:

The area in which to search for places. Results are biased towards, but not restricted to, places contained within these bounds.

It's also worth noting that in both API's there is a components or componentRestrictions parameter which allows you to restrict searches based on country. E.g.:

autocomplete.setComponentRestrictions({country:'fr'}) //to restrict results only to France.

More on that in the linked docs.

Upvotes: 2

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