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Can geolocation tool be used to get coordinates of submitted address

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Updated October 20, 2021

asked on September 28, 2017

Can we use the geolocation field to give us the latitude/longitude coordinates of a submitted address? When I try to give it a default value, the only option is geolocation, I want the default value to be an address and have the lat/long automatically populate. Is this possible?

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replied on September 28, 2017

Hey,

I don't believe you can pass an address and have the Geolocation field geocode it. That said you can achieve it with a call to the Google Map API. Keep in mind that there are limitations to this api, I cant remember exact numbers but I think you are limited to 2500 calls a day or something.

01$(document).ready(function() {
02  var s = document.createElement('script');
03    s.id = "external_content";
04    s.async = true;
05    s.src = "http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?key=API_KEY_HERE";
06    document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(s);
07    s.onload = function() {
08        var geocoder = new google.maps.Geocoder();
09        var address = "ADDRESS_GOES_HERE";
10 
11        geocoder.geocode( { 'address': address}, function(results, status) {
12 
13          if (status == google.maps.GeocoderStatus.OK) {
14              var longlat = results[0].geometry.location;
15              alert(longlat);
16          } 
17        }); 
18    }
19   
20});

You will need to get a api key from google. its free just have to login and request one.

Not exactly what you were after I know but this is the only way I know to get proper geocoding.

Hope it helps

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replied on October 20, 2021

01$(document).ready(function() {
02  var s = document.createElement('script');
03    s.id = "external_content";
04    s.async = true;
05    s.src = "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=API_KEY_HERE";
06    document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(s);
07    s.onload = function() {
08        var geocoder = new google.maps.Geocoder();
09        var address = "ADDRESS_GOES_HERE";
10 
11        geocoder.geocode( { 'address': address}, function(results, status) {
12 
13          if (status == google.maps.GeocoderStatus.OK) {
14              var longlat = results[0].geometry.location;
15              alert(longlat);
16          } 
17        }); 
18    }
19   
20});

For anybody trying this in 2021, here is the update version of this. Thank you Aaron for providing this originally!

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