Is there a way to restrict the Google Places Autocomplete to search a city's streets?

Question

Can I restrict the search to a city\'s streets when using the Google Places Autocomplete?

Answer 1

I was looking for a way to restrict Places Autocomplete to street_number level but didn't find one.

The best solution I could come up with is to check for the street_number component in the places result and present a notification to the user if it was missing.

Example code:

var searchbox = document.getElementById('location');

var options = {             
    types: ['geocode']
};

autocomplete = new google.maps.places.Autocomplete(searchbox, options);

google.maps.event.addListener(autocomplete, 'place_changed', function() {
        var place = autocomplete.getPlace();

        var foundStreet = false;

        for (var i = 0; i < place.address_components.length; i++) {
            var c = place.address_components[i];

            for (var j = 0; j < c.types.length; j++) 
            {
                if (c.types[j] == "street_number")
                {
                    foundStreet = true;
                    break;
                }
            }

            if (foundStreet)
                break;
        }

        if (!foundStreet)
            alert("Not a valid street number, add some pretty message to the user.");

        console.log(place);
    });