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Martha Smithers
Martha Smithers

Reputation: 153

Google maps - get country, region and city name from longitude and latitude (PHP)

I would like to get country, region and city name from longitude and latitude over Google maps API (V3?) - with PHP. I just can't manage to get it for every county, I managed to get this code but it doesn't work on other counties because the returned result is different (the only correct information is country but even that is returned in local name not English name):

<?
    $lok1 = $_REQUEST['lok1'];
    $lok2 = $_REQUEST['lok2'];

    $url = 'http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q='.$lok2.','.$lok1.'&output=json';
    $data = @file_get_contents($url);
    $jsondata = json_decode($data,true);

    if(is_array($jsondata )&& $jsondata ['Status']['code']==200)
    {
          $addr = $jsondata ['Placemark'][0]['AddressDetails']['Country']['CountryName'];
          $addr2 = $jsondata ['Placemark'][0]['AddressDetails']['Country']['Locality']['LocalityName'];
          $addr3 = $jsondata ['Placemark'][0]['AddressDetails']['Country']['Locality']['DependentLocality']['DependentLocalityName'];
    }
    echo "Country: " . $addr . " | Region: " . $addr2 . " | City: " . $addr3;
?>

This works great to get correct data from my country, but not for others...

Upvotes: 9

Views: 56828

Answers (6)

Anjani Barnwal
Anjani Barnwal

Reputation: 1532

if you use laravel then it will usefull for you

    $latitude=26.12312;
    $longitude=83.77823;
    $geolocation = $latitude.','.$longitude;
    $response = \Http::get('https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json', [
        'latlng' => $geolocation,
        'key' => 'api key',
        'sensor'    =>  false
    ]);
    $json_decode = json_decode($response);
    if(isset($json_decode->results[0])) {
        $response = array();
        foreach($json_decode->results[0]->address_components as $addressComponet) {
            $response[] = $addressComponet->long_name;
        }
        dd($response);
    }

please replace api key with your own

Upvotes: 0

DOMDocumentVideoSource
DOMDocumentVideoSource

Reputation: 646

its really stupid to always depend on google.

put the cities into text file with GPS x and Y coorindates and pull from there. all of this is available online

Upvotes: 0

Chandrika Prasad Shah
Chandrika Prasad Shah

Reputation: 773

Here is my approach to the problem

$lat = "22.719569";
$lng = "75.857726";
$data = file_get_contents("http://maps.google.com/maps/api/geocode/json?latlng=$lat,$lng&sensor=false");
$data = json_decode($data);
$add_array  = $data->results;
$add_array = $add_array[0];
$add_array = $add_array->address_components;
$country = "Not found";
$state = "Not found"; 
$city = "Not found";
foreach ($add_array as $key) {
  if($key->types[0] == 'administrative_area_level_2')
  {
    $city = $key->long_name;
  }
  if($key->types[0] == 'administrative_area_level_1')
  {
    $state = $key->long_name;
  }
  if($key->types[0] == 'country')
  {
    $country = $key->long_name;
  }
}
echo "Country : ".$country." ,State : ".$state." ,City : ".$city;

Upvotes: 8

Harsh Patel
Harsh Patel

Reputation: 496

<?php
$deal_lat=30.469301;
$deal_long=70.969324;
$geocode=file_get_contents('http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?latlng='.$deal_lat.','.$deal_long.'&sensor=false');

        $output= json_decode($geocode);

    for($j=0;$j<count($output->results[0]->address_components);$j++){
               $cn=array($output->results[0]->address_components[$j]->types[0]);
           if(in_array("country", $cn))
           {
            $country= $output->results[0]->address_components[$j]->long_name;
           }
            }
            echo $country;
?>

Upvotes: 6

srbhbarot
srbhbarot

Reputation: 1317

You can use second api(suggested by Thomas) like this:

$geocode=file_get_contents('http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?latlng=48.283273,14.295041&sensor=false');

        $output= json_decode($geocode);

echo $output->results[0]->formatted_address;

Try this..

Edit:::::

$geocode=file_get_contents('http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?latlng=48.283273,14.295041&sensor=false');

        $output= json_decode($geocode);

    for($j=0;$j<count($output->results[0]->address_components);$j++){
                echo '<b>'.$output->results[0]->address_components[$j]->types[0].': </b>  '.$output->results[0]->address_components[$j]->long_name.'<br/>';
            }

Upvotes: 25

Thomas Antony
Thomas Antony

Reputation: 584

Have you tried using their GeoCoding API?

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/#ReverseGeocoding

Example: http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?latlng=40.714224,-73.961452&sensor=false

Edit: I have used it in many apps targeting India and it has worked pretty well.

Upvotes: 1

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