Geocoding with google

Help & Support
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Hello, google tells me to use this line in the code, var geocoder = new google.maps.Geocoder(); if i use it i get an error ReferenceError: google is not defined …what i miss?

2

It means that ‘google’ hasn’t been defined anywhere. Where is it defined in your project?

3

It isn’t…nowhere is write to define it…also if i suposed it was necessary to define it…i searched on google lot of times but i haven’t found a decent explanation.

4

Oh right…happy 2017 :slight_smile:

5

If you check the samples from the Google Maps API documentation, you can see how they have included the JS SDK into their page: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/map-simple

6

You mean this? good point …all the examples are for html pages, i have checked my project on google and it has the geocoding api enabled, i also found this https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?latlng=40.714224,-73.961452&key=YOUR_API_KEY and still don’t get how to use all this in Playcanvas.
I have copied in this js the file given by google but i think i have to rewrite some parts of it https://playcanvas.com/editor/code/440230/googgle.js … totally lost

7

Very quickly did a sample project to test which looks like it works: https://playcanvas.com/project/448540/overview/google-geocoding-test.

Not sure what you are looking to achieve though?

8

Uhm, what i want to achieve is the reverse geocoding for lat and lng get the address.

9

That seems to be pretty straightforward. What problems are you running into at the moment?

10

Yes it should be not difficult so that means i’m dumb :stuck_out_tongue: now i have got this error
InvalidValueError: in property latLng: not a LatLng or LatLngLiteral: not an Object
given by this

geocoder.geocode({ 'latLng': latlng }, function (results, status) {
                if (status == google.maps.GeocoderStatus.OK) {
                    if (results[0]) {
                        alert("Location: " + results[0].formatted_address);
                        return (results[0].formatted_address);
                    }
                }
            });
11

How have you initialised the variable ‘latlng’?

12

var latlng=this.latlng; and this.latlng=lat+’,’+lng; in different functions that’s why the double equality

13

latLng is a class that is defined in the Google SDK and is what geocode is expecting as a parameter: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/reference#LatLng

14

mmhh i really start to hate google maps now :angry: i feel like a mouse in a wheel

15

A step forward, al least i got an error over_query_limit :slight_smile: never thought i would be happy to see an error lol