Can I find out if a coordinate is inside a city?

Question

Let\'s say I have a LatLng object, is there any way of checking if it represents a possible location within a city? How can I get the limits of a city? I\'m using Google Map

Answer 1

Have you tried reverse geocoding?

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/services.html#ReverseGeocoding

You could check the formatted address to see if the city matches what you're looking for. I'm not sure how accurate this will be for your application, but it's an option.

function codeLatLng() {
    var geocoder = new google.maps.Geocoder(),
        latlng = new google.maps.LatLng(40.730885, -73.997383);
    geocoder.geocode({ 'latLng': latlng }, function (results, status) {
        if (status == google.maps.GeocoderStatus.OK) {
            if (results[1]) {
                console.log(results[1]);
                console.log(results[1].formatted_address);
            }
        } else {
            alert("Geocoder failed due to: " + status);
        }
    });
}