Question

I have a job board where a user submits his location, via Google-Maps API, which plots the job on a map.

The problem is, because it is a location based job board, I want to make the most broad input allowable a ZIP code (so users can either enter a ZIP code or address). Is there anyway to either parse the input to determine whether it’s a zip code or address – or does Google Maps API return anything that would let me know how broad the input the user supplied was?

Answer 1

I found a jquery plugin parse addresses VIA google maps, that you might want to try. From the doco:

$("#submit").click(function(){

  // use parseaddress plugin on an element, send response to callback function

  $("#addressinput").parseaddress(callback);

});

var callback = function(cleanaddress) {
  console.log(cleanaddress['street']);
  console.log(cleanaddress['city']);
  console.log(cleanaddress['state']);
  console.log(cleanaddress['country']);
  console.log(cleanaddress['zip']);
  console.log(cleanaddress['lat']);
  console.log(cleanaddress['lon']);
}