Google Maps places API to only return cities?

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I am trying to use Google's map API to only return cities from their json request:

 https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/autocomplete/json?input=green%20lanes&types=geocode&sensor=false&types=regions&key=*API KEY HERE*

The key being &types=regions but it still returns all results.

For example, I am searching for the street Green Lanes and rather than returning cities that might contain Green Lanes its returning the street in London as the top result.

score 17 · Accepted Answer · edited May 22 '13 at 04:42

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https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/autocomplete/json?input=green%20lanes&types=geocode&sensor=false&types=regions&key=API KEY HERE

should be

https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/autocomplete/json?input=green%20lanes&sensor=false&types=(regions)&key=API KEY HERE

ZERO RESULTS, because regions does not search for street name:

the (regions) type collection instructs the Place service to return any result matching the following types: locality sublocality postal_code country administrative_area1 administrative_area2

edited May 22 '13 at 04:42

Asim

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answered Apr 26 '13 at 03:07

Rob van den Berg

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Yep, but changing green lanes to london (or whatever city( will return cities that contain london. – Jamie Hutber Apr 26 '13 at 11:13
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Spend half a day to just get cities out of autocomplete. Million thanks to you – Rohan Kandwal Jun 08 '13 at 11:23
Hey @RohanKandwal , rob can you please provide me a fiddle that shows only city names? – Sudarshan Kalebere Feb 08 '17 at 12:16
@SudarshanKalebere sorry bro, I used it in Android using GSON parser. – Rohan Kandwal Feb 10 '17 at 05:19

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 17 '20 at 20:23

This is an old question, but the accepted answer is not correct for the specific question.

The correct argument for the types parameter to return only cities is (cities). So the complete URL would be:

https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/autocomplete/json?input=green%20lanes&types=(cities)&key= API_KEY_HERE

You can see more information here. Also, I omitted the sensor parameter since it's not needed anymore.

Google Maps places API to only return cities?

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