Allow 'google_geocode_location' to return a full result [#213387]

This patch provides an optional second argument to google_geocode_location which causes the function to return an array in this form...

Array
(
    [CountryNameCode] => GB
    [AdministrativeAreaName] => England
    [SubAdministrativeAreaName] => Greater London
    [LocalityName] => Barnet
    [coordinates] => -0.179890,51.562816,0
)

I personal am finding this useful as i'm importing data which contains a postcode and the address first line only. It provides a consistent list of towns and provinces.

Comment	File	Size	Author
#4	location-allow-return-full-geocoding-result-213387-4.patch	2.39 KB	semiaddict
#2	location_return_results.patch	1.99 KB	nickl

Comments

Comment #1

yesct commented 11 April 2009 at 15:49

Status:

Needs review

» Postponed

This sounds really cool. If someone wants to create a patch to implement this, please do. Since this has been inactive for over a year, I'll mark it postponed for now, because this might be an idea worth investigating in the future.

Comment #2

nickl commented 10 March 2010 at 20:32

Status:

Postponed

» Needs review

Status	File	Size
new	location_return_results.patch	1.99 KB

Attached patch rolled against head.

When supplying the following details
Street address: 10 Springbok st
City: Pofadder
Country: South Africa
Traversing through the returned xml a data collection can be populated as follows.

Array\
(\
    [name] => 10 Springbok st, Pofadder\
    [code] => 200\
    [request] => geocode\
    [id] => p1\
    [address] => Springbok St, Pofadder 8890, South Africa\
    [Accuracy] => 6\
    [CountryNameCode] => ZA\
    [CountryName] => South Africa\
    [AdministrativeAreaName] => Northern Cape\
    [LocalityName] => Pofadder\
    [ThoroughfareName] => Springbok St\
    [north] => -29.1296450\
    [south] => -29.1359403\
    [east] => 19.3980672\
    [west] => 19.3914930\
    [coordinates] => 19.3948082,-29.1328123,0\
)\

Currently the location object is not being passed by reference and therefor the result cannot be populated back.
Any suggestions?

Comment #3

yesct commented 11 April 2010 at 06:39

Issue tags:

+location bdragon check

tagging

Comment #4

semiaddict commented 29 March 2011 at 09:15

Status	File	Size
new	location-allow-return-full-geocoding-result-213387-4.patch	2.39 KB

Hi,

Here's a different patch that adds a second boolean argument to google_geocode_location called full_result.
The argument is set to false by default, but if set to true returns the full geocoding result returned by google.

To make it easier to do this, I changed the format from xml to json. So the full result returned will be the result of a json_decode.

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Oussama Mubarak // Semiaddict