Thanks Larry, in case anyone gets this issue, this is what I did to
fix it:
//takes a google.LatLng object
//returns an array with city at [0] amd country at [1]
function reverseGeocode(marker) {
var location = new Object();
city = ["administrative_area_level_1", "political"];
country = ["country", "political"];
var geocoder = new google.maps.Geocoder();
geocoder.geocode({location: marker.getPosition()},
function(results,
status) {
if (status == google.maps.GeocoderStatus.OK) {
for(i=0; i <
results[0].address_components.length; i++) {
if((location.city && location.country)
== null) {
if(results[0].address_components[i].types[0] == city[0] &&
location.city == null) {
location.city =
results[0].address_components[i].long_name;
}
else
if(results[0].address_components[i].types[0] == country[0]
&& location.country == null) {
location.country =
results[0].address_components[i].long_name;
}
}
}
marker.city = location.city;
marker.country = location.country;
}
});
}
On Nov 5, 12:36 am, "geocode...@gmail.com" <geocode...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Nov 5, 12:34 am, Rob <rob.feli...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thanks for helping out, so I followed your suggestion of doing a
> > reverse geocode when dropping the marker, such as:
>
> > markerLocation =
> > reverseGeocode(marker.getPosition());
> > alert(markerLocation.city);
>
> > However, markerLocation is always null, even though within the
> > reverseGeocode function, the city is being populated properly. I am
> > assuming this is because JS doesn't wait for the AJAX request to be
> > completed, and just continues executing the rest of the code. Any
> > idea on how to solve this?
>
> the reverse geocoder is asynchronous, you can't return a value from it
> like that.
>
> set the position of the marker in the callback routine.
>
> -- Larry
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Nov 4, 6:46 pm, Rossko <ros...@culzean.clara.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > > > I have a map where I drop a number of markers.
>
> > > That would be the time to do reverse gecoding?
>
> > > > I need to save the
> > > > location of the markers to a database, along with the city and country
> > > > that the marker was placed in.
>
> > > Beware the terms of use for storing Google's data
>
> > > > Any way I can do this synchronously?
>
> > > No, but you can write code that simulates it e.g. execute one request,
> > > when response comes execute the next, when all complete do whatever
> > > else. The next pitfall will be the limited rate of request allowed,
> > > to prevent abuse.
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