Getting street number from Places API - google-maps

Question

I'm using the Google Places API to make entering destinations easy. Ideally, I would like the user to be able to start entering the semantic name (e.g. Stanford University) and have Places API autosuggest an option. I am using results returned by the Geocoder to get the structured place data. However, I notice that if I enter in a query for "Stanford University", the returned geocoded result does not contain a key for street_number. Does anyone know how you can use Places API to geocode a place into a geocode result that includes a street_number?

Answer 1

If I lookup Stanford University with the places service, it returns the place_id ChIJneqLZyq7j4ARf2j8RBrwzSk. A getDetails request with that place_id returns an address components array with an entry with type street_number.
proof of concept fiddle
code snippet:
var map;
var infowiandow;
var service;
var data_id;
var count = 1;
var request;
var placeIDs = [];
function initialize() {
map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById('map-canvas'), {
center: new google.maps.LatLng(19.12455, 72.929158),
zoom: 11
});
infowindow = new google.maps.InfoWindow();
var bounds = new google.maps.LatLngBounds();
var errorCnt = 0;
var successCnt = 0;
for (var i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
placeIDs[i] = data[i]['place_id'];
infoWindow = new google.maps.InfoWindow();
service = new google.maps.places.PlacesService(map);
service.getDetails({
placeId: placeIDs[i]
}, function (place, status) {
if (status == google.maps.places.PlacesServiceStatus.OK) {
successCnt += 1;
var marker = new google.maps.Marker({
map: map,
position: place.geometry.location,
title: place.name
});
for (var i = 0; i < place.address_components.length; i++) {
for (var j = 0; j < place.address_components[i].types.length; j++) {
if (place.address_components[i].types[j] == "street_number") {
document.getElementById('info').innerHTML += "street_number:" + place.address_components[i].long_name + "<br>";
}
}
}
console.log(place);
bounds.extend(marker.getPosition());
google.maps.event.addListener(marker, 'click', function () {
infowindow.setContent(place.name + "<br>" + place.types + "<br><a href='" + place.url + "'>url</a>");
infowindow.open(map, this);
});
document.getElementById('success').innerHTML += "placename=" + place.name + " successCnt=" + successCnt + "<br>";
map.fitBounds(bounds);
} else {
document.getElementById('info').innerHTML += "[" + errorCnt + "] status=" + status + " successCnt=" + successCnt + "<br>";
errorCnt += 1;
}
});
}
/* }); */
}
var data = [{
place_id: "ChIJneqLZyq7j4ARf2j8RBrwzSk"
}];
google.maps.event.addDomListener(window, 'load', initialize);
html, body, #map-canvas {
height: 100%;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px
}
<script src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?libraries=places"></script>
<div id="success"></div>
<div id="info"></div>
<div id="map-canvas"></div>
<h4 id="place_id"></h4>