Google's Geocoder returns wrong country, ignoring the region hint

Question

I\'m using Google\'s Geocoder to find lat lng coordinates for a given address.

    var geocoder = new google.maps.Geocoder();
    geocoder.geocode(
    {
            


        

Answer 1

I always found this to be pretty easy to filter through since the results can vary and the region doesn't seem to work.

response( $.map( results, function( item ) {
 if (item.formatted_address.indexOf("GB") != -1) {
    return {
      latitude: item.geometry.location.lat(),
      longitude: item.geometry.location.lng()
    }
  }
}