Parsing city/state from Google Maps request

Question

var geocoder = new google.maps.Geocoder();
            geocoder.geocode({\'latLng\': foundLoc}, function(results, status) {
                if (status == google.maps         


        

Answer 1

This seems to work for me so far...

  readCityAndStateFromResult: (data) ->
    displayName = []
    for component in data[0].address_components
      if component.types and component.types.length
        switch true
          when 'locality' in component.types
            displayName.push component.long_name
          when 'administrative_area_level_1' in component.types or 'administrative_area_level_2' in component.types
            displayName.push component.short_name
    return displayName.join ', ' if displayName.length
    return null

Answer 2

Why do you parse formatted_address ?

There are the address_components, you can walk through them and look for the ones with

"types": [ "administrative_area_level_1", "political" ]// the state
"types" : [ "locality", "political" ]//the city

Here's an example: http://jsfiddle.net/doktormolle/QWPCL/