Certain specific partial Hawaiian addresses result in validated address responses that use ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa rather than USA.
Typically the partial addresses that produce these response are where the St/Rd/Ln component is missing.
Of the form: 56-8769 Aloha, Kainaliu
If the St. is added then the response uses USA as expected. If the town is omitted and the partial address first line is used then the response uses USA as expected.
Anyone else run into this? Any ideas of the cause? and how to work around it?
I tried this using remote calls to the API and the demo app that Google provides with the Address Validation API documentation. Both produced the same results.
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I try to find a postal code for a given place_id. The place_id was provided by the autocomplete service. The prediction of the autocomplete service shows me a postal code. When calling the details service there is no postal_code in the address components list.
I tried to restrict the autocomplete service to only search for results with postal_code as type in the address components list. But I think there is no restriction for only providing results with postal_code elements.
curl -XGET "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/autocomplete/json?key=<API-KEY>&input=88400,Biberach"
#Use place_id of first item: ChIJ1Tzt4ZLFm0cRAlQh0MLHBxE
curl -XGET "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/details/json?key=<API-KEY>&placeid=ChIJ1Tzt4ZLFm0cRAlQh0MLHBxE&fields=address_component,type"
My expected behavior is to get a postal_code for the result of place/details. But it isn't there.
Can someone explain to me why this is not provided or if there is a good way to restrict the autocomplete call to only provide results with postal code elements in the address components.
If no postal code is returned this could be due to the result spanning over multiple postal codes (e.g. there is no postal code for "Berlin, Germany" since it could be anything from 10xxx to 14xxx).
A simple workaround could be to include a street and a house number while calling the API.
This question here basically asks the same question:
Restrict Google Places Autocomplete to return addresses only
But doesn't get the right answer.
If we look at the official documentation examples they have an option to selected address type. However, on it, we can see that it will allow us to selected just streets:
Is there a way to make Places Autocomplete select real addresses only?
Since this question is quite old, the search result is now somehow different but the fact that address type returns street addresses remains the same.
And to clarify things here, the API is working as intended when it returns street addresses.
types=address seems to be quite vague and what you need to do is to be more specific if you don't want street address to be included.
Here's a table for reference on the different types of restrictions for autocomplete from the Place Types Documentation.
Table 3: Type collections supported in Place Autocomplete requests
The supported types are:
geocode instructs the Place Autocomplete service to return only geocoding results, rather than business results. Generally, you use this request to disambiguate results where the location specified may be indeterminate.
address instructs the Place Autocomplete service to return only geocoding results with a precise address. Generally, you use this request when you know the user will be looking for a fully specified address.
establishment instructs the Place Autocomplete service to return only business results.
(regions) type collection instructs the Places service to return any result matching the following types:
locality
sublocality
postal_code
country
administrative_area_level_1
administrative_area_level_2
(cities) type collection instructs the Places service to return results that match locality or administrative_area_level_3.
To further prove this, I tried using the official documentation example for testing.
I tried searching real street address with both types=address and types=geocode and they return street addresses as expected.
With address type:
With geocode type:
Then I tried the types=establishment and it did not return any street addresses.
With establishment type:
You can use any other types value apart from types=establishment like the (cities) and (regions). As long as you are specific in your restrictions, things will be working fine. You can just put some toggle on your app to change restrictions just like on the official docs example so that your end user could freely choose the restrictions. But it still depends on your use case.
Hope this helps.
Given a unique_email_id, how can I retrieve all list members matching that ID?
I am attempting to use the search-members endpoint, ala what I do for searching email-addresses:
https://us9.api.mailchimp.com/3.0/search-members?query=chris#chris.com
but instead (given a unique_email_id of 4dce5
https://us9.api.mailchimp.com/3.0/search-members?query=4dce5
and I'm getting no results.
Is there another endpoint I'm missing?
However using the query string ?unique_email_id=X attached to the end
of GET lists/list_id/members will pull up anyone with that specific
EUID.
Indeed this works very well. Example :
GET /3.0/lists/dfc3cf4b38/members?unique_email_id=f4b75a9d78&fields=members.email_address
will return :
{"members":[{"email_address":"my_email#hotmail.com"}]}
I've had a chat with the mailchimp support about this issue. This was there response (part of it because not everything discussed in that chat is relevant to this question):
(09:00:04 AM) Mailchimp support: Thanks for hanging in there, Me. It looks like
the email_unique_id can't be searched via API endpoint like it can be
within the app. Another option to get to your goal is GET to
lists/list_id/members with the query string
?fields=members.email_address,members.unique_email_id which should
pull up all their subscribers' emails and unique ids. At that point,
you can filter through those results for the unique id
(09:00:52 AM) Me: Same goes for the user ID I guess?
(09:02:05 AM) Me: Why can't it be searched? When I list ids as well I might miss information. I don't need the unique_email_id in my response, I need to search for it to retrieve user information without getting duplicates in my result
(09:07:11 AM) Mailchimp support: Ok I understand, one
moment while we test this out for you. Thanks again for your patience!
(09:16:22 AM) Mailchimp support: Hey Me, thanks for waiting. I tested the
endpoint lists/list_id/members?unique_email_id=e8da8fa60a and I was
able to return just the one subscriber with that field. Search-Members
only functions the way it does in app where you can only search
specific strings like names, email addresses, but not ids as those
aren't visible in app. However using the query string
?unique_email_id=X attached to the end of GET lists/list_id/members
will pull up anyone with that specific EUID.
On the request for current place I receive a list of places. Every place has an address but that address is a string so I can't get only the country name.
Could someone help me on this matter?
Country is only explicitly available when using the Place Details API, not the Places API. (https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/details)
You first need to look up a place_id for the specific place you're looking for. You then use your place_id to pull details from the Details API, which includes information like:
Fully formatted address, including country
Address components
Sample reviews
Phone # and website
Operating hours
If you have read the Google Places Autocomplete doc,you must know about API properties.you can use the type as '(region)' and will return you many results (plus country).And if you look inside address_components field (it's array with dynamic length),you will see,that the last item of array is what you need.Here is a great page to read a correct doc and try examples yourself.
http://www.w3docs.com/learn-javascript/places-autocomplete.html
I'm using Google Places API to get nearby places, but I've noticed that while I get the place names and addresses, the results don't include the Country.
Is there a way to get the country included in the results?
This is the call I'm using:
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/nearbysearch/xml?location=<lat,lng>&radius=100&sensor=true&key=<api_key>
Thanks!
The Geocoding API is what you want.
Try
http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=Calgary,%20Alberta&sensor=false
it'll return fully formatted address info in several ways (split by administrative level, formatted as an address,etc.)
also the place Types blog in google api will help..link is here