I'm using the following code, with a valid API key, to obtain latitude and longitude from the Google Geocoder JS API:
<script async defer type="text/javascript"
src="http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?key=[key]">
</script>
<script>
var geocoder = new google.maps.Geocoder();
var address = "1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA";
geocoder.geocode( { 'address': address}, function(results, status) {
if (status == google.maps.GeocoderStatus.OK)
{
console.log (results[0]);
// results[0].geometry.location.lat
// results[0].geometry.location.lng
}
else console.log(status, results);
});
</script>
The query to the Google server works fine, and brings back results. The problem is that no matter what address I enter, location.lat
comes back as _.E/this.lat()
and location.lng
comes back as _.E/this.lng()
. The viewport coordinates are fine, but the actual latitude and longitude results are nonsense to me. The same thing happens if I put the code into a function and pass it as a callback.
Has anyone ever encountered this before? Is there something I'm missing? I can't find anything anywhere about this problem when I search, and this is my first time using the API.
results[0].geometry.location
is a google.maps.LatLng
. It doesn't have .lat
/.lng
properties, they are functions, you need to call them:
var geocoder = new google.maps.Geocoder();
var address = "1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA";
geocoder.geocode({
'address': address
}, function(results, status) {
if (status == google.maps.GeocoderStatus.OK) {
console.log(results[0]);
var lat = results[0].geometry.location.lat();
var lng = results[0].geometry.location.lng();
map.setCenter(results[0].geometry.location);
} else console.log(status, results);
});
code snippet:
var geocoder;
var map;
function initialize() {
var map = new google.maps.Map(
document.getElementById("map_canvas"), {
center: new google.maps.LatLng(37.4419, -122.1419),
zoom: 13,
mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP
});
var geocoder = new google.maps.Geocoder();
var address = "1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA";
geocoder.geocode({
'address': address
}, function(results, status) {
if (status == google.maps.GeocoderStatus.OK) {
console.log(results[0]);
var lat = results[0].geometry.location.lat();
var lng = results[0].geometry.location.lng();
var iw = new google.maps.InfoWindow();
iw.setContent("lat:" + lat + "<br>lng:" + lng);
iw.setPosition(results[0].geometry.location);
iw.open(map);
map.setCenter(results[0].geometry.location);
} else console.log(status, results);
});
}
google.maps.event.addDomListener(window, "load", initialize);
html,
body,
#map_canvas {
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px
}
<script src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=AIzaSyCkUOdZ5y7hMm0yrcCQoCvLwzdM6M8s5qk"></script>
<div id="map_canvas"></div>