Region Code Biasing (ES)

This demonstrates sending a geocoding request for "Toledo" and receiving a result in Spain. The result returned depends on the region of the map. See also the demo for the US region.

Read the documentation.

TypeScript

function initMap(): void {
  const map = new google.maps.Map(
    document.getElementById("map") as HTMLElement,
    {
      zoom: 8,
    }
  );
  const geocoder = new google.maps.Geocoder();

  geocoder
    .geocode({ address: "Toledo" })
    .then((response) => {
      const position = response.results[0].geometry.location;

      map.setCenter(position);
      new google.maps.Marker({
        map,
        position,
      });
    })
    .catch((e) =>
      window.alert("Geocode was not successful for the following reason: " + e)
    );
}

declare global {
  interface Window {
    initMap: () => void;
  }
}
window.initMap = initMap;index.ts

JavaScript

function initMap() {
  const map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("map"), {
    zoom: 8,
  });
  const geocoder = new google.maps.Geocoder();

  geocoder
    .geocode({ address: "Toledo" })
    .then((response) => {
      const position = response.results[0].geometry.location;

      map.setCenter(position);
      new google.maps.Marker({
        map,
        position,
      });
    })
    .catch((e) =>
      window.alert("Geocode was not successful for the following reason: " + e),
    );
}

window.initMap = initMap;index.js

CSS

/* 
 * Always set the map height explicitly to define the size of the div element
 * that contains the map. 
 */
#map {
  height: 100%;
}

/* 
 * Optional: Makes the sample page fill the window. 
 */
html,
body {
  height: 100%;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}
style.css

HTML

<html>
  <head>
    <title>Geocoding Region - ES</title>

    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./style.css" />
    <script type="module" src="./index.js"></script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="map"></div>

    <!-- 
      The `defer` attribute causes the script to execute after the full HTML
      document has been parsed. For non-blocking uses, avoiding race conditions,
      and consistent behavior across browsers, consider loading using Promises. See
      https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/load-maps-js-api
      for more information.
      -->
    <script
      src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=AIzaSyB41DRUbKWJHPxaFjMAwdrzWzbVKartNGg&callback=initMap&v=weekly&region=ES"
      defer
    ></script>
  </body>
</html>index.html

Try Sample

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Clone Sample

Git and Node.js are required to run this sample locally. Follow these instructions to install Node.js and NPM. The following commands clone, install dependencies and start the sample application.

  git clone -b sample-geocoding-region-es https://github.com/googlemaps/js-samples.git
  cd js-samples
  npm i
  npm start

Other samples can be tried by switching to any branch beginning with sample-SAMPLE_NAME.

  git checkout sample-SAMPLE_NAME
  npm i
  npm start