[TriLUG] Google Maps Autocomplete help?

[Brian McCullough via TriLUG]

On Tue, Sep 04, 2018 at 11:07:38PM -0400, Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list wrote:
> Brian, are you parsing the places or creating places?

Hmmm, Wes.  I _think_ that I am parsing places, in your terms.

I have been using this,
https://google-developers.appspot.com/maps/documentation/javascript/places-autocomplete

among other places that seem to have similar documentation.

Mainly, I have a box ( HTML INPUT tag ) on my page ( form ) that prompts
the user for a Country, and another one that prompts for a City.

I use Autocomplete to "fill in" the values of each field, and then,
using the "place_changed" event, get the Place ID, which I pass back to
the server-side code for processing, just as you demonstrated.

I do like your work with "address_components.type," and may use it.
However, I am trying to only show the user choices that are actually
Countries, as opposed to all of the different types that you are testing
for.


Thank you for the reply.

Brian