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Nyxynyxx
Nyxynyxx

Reputation: 1183

Reverse Geocode on Client Side (Google Maps V3 API)

How do you do a Reverse Geocode on the clientside using Google Maps V3 API? The forward geocode from address to LatLng is straight forward (code below), but how do you do the same for reverse geocode?

Normal Geocode Code:

geocoder = new google.maps.Geocoder();
geocoder.geocode( { 'address': address}, function(results, status) {
  if (status == google.maps.GeocoderStatus.OK) {
    map.setCenter(results[0].geometry.location);
    var marker = new google.maps.Marker({
    map: map,
    position: results[0].geometry.location
  });

Upvotes: 5

Views: 11023

Answers (1)

Khepri
Khepri

Reputation: 9627

The process is exactly the same, with the minor difference that instead of supplying an address object to the geocode function you supply a LatLng object

Reverse Geocode Code:

var input = document.getElementById("latlng").value;
var latlngStr = input.split(",",2);
var lat = parseFloat(latlngStr[0]);
var lng = parseFloat(latlngStr[1]);
var latlng = new google.maps.LatLng(lat, lng);

geocoder.geocode({'latLng': latlng}, function(results, status) {
  if (status == google.maps.GeocoderStatus.OK) {
    if (results[1]) {
      map.setZoom(11);
      marker = new google.maps.Marker({
          position: latlng, 
          map: map
      }); 
      infowindow.setContent(results[1].formatted_address);
      infowindow.open(map, marker);
    } else {
      alert("No results found");
    }
  } else {
    alert("Geocoder failed due to: " + status);
  }
});

Example directly from Google

Hope that helps.

Upvotes: 13

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