Does reverse geocoding translate coordinates into an address?

Question

Did I miss something completely obvious here?

My intention is to convert the coordinates to an address and paste it into a div

http://jsfiddle.net/sHLG6/1/

thanks

Answer 1

I saw 3 things that popped up right away with your violin.

• You have never referenced Google javascript libraries.
• You never called initialize() and codeLatLng()
• You used the value property in the div element, but what you really wanted was the getAttribute() method.

I changed your script so that it works now

For completeness, the source code was as follows.

 <div id="latlng" value="54.9882,-1.5747"></div> <div id="test"></div> var geocoder; function initialize() { geocoder = new google.maps.Geocoder(); } function codeLatLng() { var input = document.getElementById("latlng").value; var latlngStr = input.split(",", 2); var lat = parseFloat(latlngStr[0]); var lng = parseFloat(latlngStr[1]); var latlng = new google.maps.LatLng(lat, lng); geocoder.geocode({ 'latLng': latlng }, function(results, status) { document.getElementById("test").innerHTML = '' + (results[4].formatted_address); + '' }); }​ 

Work code:

 <script type="text/javascript" src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false"></script> <div id="latlng" value="54.9882,-1.5747"></div> <div id="test"></div> var geocoder; initialize(); codeLatLng(); function initialize() { geocoder = new google.maps.Geocoder(); } function codeLatLng() { var input = document.getElementById("latlng").getAttribute('value'); console.log(input); var latlngStr = input.split(",", 2); var lat = parseFloat(latlngStr[0]); var lng = parseFloat(latlngStr[1]); var latlng = new google.maps.LatLng(lat, lng); geocoder.geocode({ 'latLng': latlng }, function(results, status) { document.getElementById("test").innerHTML = '' + (results[4].formatted_address); + '' }); }​