Everyone hates stupid map search results. However map search results tin survive really difficult to larn correct - at that topographic point are a lot of towns in addition to streets inwards the footing alongside the same names.
If your application continuously directs users to the incorrect location hence yous are really speedily going to lose those users. If I alive inwards San Francisco in addition to I search on a map for Broadway Street the chances are I'm non looking for the Broadway Street inwards Pearland Texas precisely for the 1 inwards San Francisco.
Therefore 1 means that yous tin amend search map results for the bulk of users is yesteryear using location biasing. Thankfully yous tin at 1 time add together location biasing to your Google Maps search using Google Places API Autocomplete.
Autocomplete inwards the Google Places API at 1 time automatically biases results towards the user’s location based on the user’s IP address. Therefore the closest locations to the user volition appear at the altitude of the autocomplete suggested addresses.
However at that topographic point may survive cases where yous don't desire to bias search results based on the users location. For illustration if your application is a map of the virtually visited San Francisco tourist locations yous mightiness desire to trammel search results to the San Francisco area. Using Location Biasing inwards the Places API yous tin too bias results to a specified expanse yesteryear defining a location in addition to a radius. This ensures that the Place Autocomplete service preferences results inside that circle. You tin too role the components parameter to filter results to demo solely those places inside a specified country.
Location biasing isn't a perfect solution to map search results in addition to yous may non desire to role location biasing inwards your maps. If that is the instance yous tin effectively plow it off inwards the Places API Autcomplete search yesteryear setting the location to '0,0' in addition to radius to '20000000' (20 thou kilometers), hence that your results concealment the entire world.
