Get definite City name in Google maps reverse geocoding

Question

Using the Google Maps Geocoding API, i\'m able to get the formatted address for a particular coordinate. To get the exact city name, I\'m doing the following:

Answer 1

So I was trying to figure this out today and I came to this solution if it helps anyone. Google maps comes with the Geocoder built in now so you just create a geocoder object once the API has loaded.

You can easily wrap that in a function and just return an object with the city, state, and postal code. This site was helpful in allowing me to see what the different 'types' mean: Reverse Geocoding

var geocoder = new google.maps.Geocoder,
    latitude = 28.54, //sub in your latitude
    longitude = -81.39, //sub in your longitude
    postal_code,
    city,
    state;
geocoder.geocode({'location': {lat:latitude, lng:longitude}}, function(results, status) {
  if (status === google.maps.GeocoderStatus.OK) {
    results.forEach(function(element){
      element.address_components.forEach(function(element2){
        element2.types.forEach(function(element3){
          switch(element3){
            case 'postal_code':
              postal_code = element2.long_name;
              break;
            case 'administrative_area_level_1':
              state = element2.long_name;
              break;
            case 'locality':
              city = element2.long_name;
              break;
          }
        })
      });
    });
  }
});