get city from geocoder results?

Question

Having problems getting the different arrays content from geocoder results.

item.formatted_address works but not item.address_components.locality?

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Answer 1

tried a couple of different requests:

MK107BX

Cleveland Park Crescent, UK

like you say, array size returned is inconsistent but the Town for both results appears to be in the address_component item with type of [ "locality", "political" ]. Perhaps you could use that as an indicator?

EDIT: get the locality object using jQuery, add this to your response function:

var arrAddress = item.results[0].address_components;
// iterate through address_component array
$.each(arrAddress, function (i, address_component) {
    if (address_component.types[0] == "locality") // locality type
        console.log(address_component.long_name); // here's your town name
        return false; // break the loop
    });