Google Maps Autocomplete: how to get lat/lng?

Question

I'm using Google Maps' autocomplete feature for geocoding. It seems to return a lot of data, but not the lat/lng. Is there a way to get this information? I'd like to pass it back to my backend application for further processing.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10957649/google-maps-autocomplete-how-to-get-lat-lng

Answer 1

There are methods called lat() and lng() that exist on the geometry object's prototype. So to get the values, just use the following:

var place = autocomplete.getPlace();

var lat = place.geometry.location.lat(),
    lng = place.geometry.location.lng();

// Then do whatever you want with them

console.log(lat);
console.log(lng);

console.warn('Warning: I didn't test this code!');