get city from location html
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no"/> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/> <title>Reverse Geocoding</title> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> var geocoder; if (navigator.geolocation) { navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(successFunction, errorFunction); } //Get the latitude and the longitude; function successFunction(position) { var lat = position.coords.latitude; var lng = position.coords.longitude; codeLatLng(lat, lng) } function errorFunction(){ alert("Geocoder failed"); } function initialize() { geocoder = new google.maps.Geocoder(); } function codeLatLng(lat, lng) { var latlng = new google.maps.LatLng(lat, lng); geocoder.geocode({'latLng': latlng}, function(results, status) { if (status == google.maps.GeocoderStatus.OK) { console.log(results) if (results[1]) { //formatted address alert(results[0].formatted_address) //find country name for (var i=0; i<results[0].address_components.length; i++) { for (var b=0;b<results[0].address_components[i].types.length;b++) { //there are different types that might hold a city admin_area_lvl_1 usually does in come cases looking for sublocality type will be more appropriate if (results[0].address_components[i].types[b] == "administrative_area_level_1") { //this is the object you are looking for city= results[0].address_components[i]; break; } } } //city data alert(city.short_name + " " + city.long_name) } else { alert("No results found"); } } else { alert("Geocoder failed due to: " + status); } }); } </script> </head> <body onload="initialize()"> </body> </html>
