Reputation: 79
I'm building a drill down interactive map I want to use lists, that will enable the user to drill from continent to country to administrative_area_level_1 regions
is there a way to query google maps api and get a list of administrative_area_level_1 names for a given country?
I looked in geocoding - which gives me essentially a lat/lng coordinates for an address also looked at reverse geocoding, that will return address components for a given lat/lng
not relevant... i need a list of administrative_area_level_1 names for a given country...
Upvotes: 7
Views: 6288
Reputation: 11960
I don't believe Google has a complete list or API for that information, but there are several resources that might be helpful:
Counties (US Census Data)
Cities (Google AdWords API
"Geographical Targets" (Google AdWords API)
That last one is ambiguous but seems to include quite a lot. You could probably filter it down to just what you need.
Upvotes: 3
Reputation: 89
Unfortunately the Google Maps API does no provide this functionality. You will have to look into solutions such as the SimpleGeo Context API.
Upvotes: 1