Question

The Google Places API exposes an autocomplete service that is useful for autocompleting places but sometimes I don’t want places but addresses. I can see the difference when I type in my autocomplete widget and in actual Google Maps interface.

So, is it possible to actually use an address autocomplete API?

Answer 1

Yes, you can add in an optional type to the autocomplete options of “geocode”:

var defaultBounds = new google.maps.LatLngBounds(
  new google.maps.LatLng(-33.8902, 151.1759),
  new google.maps.LatLng(-33.8474, 151.2631));

var input = document.getElementById('searchTextField');
var options = {
  bounds: defaultBounds,
  types: ['geocode']
};

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