Getting an intersection with Google Places/Geocoding API

Question

I\'m trying to find the two closest streets to a point with the Google Places API (basically to indicate the closest intersection). However, any result will only ever return

Answer 1

As discussed, there is no GoogleMap facility to reverse geocode and get a set of close points.

The only alternative I see is

• Calculate 200 metres N/S/E/W of the point with Haversine. You'll need to choose '200' empirically
• Reverse-geocode those 4 points
• From the returned addresses, take the 2 closest streets that are different (may not succeed)

If you do this client-side, your users will rarely run into the daily 2'500 limit.