Get latitude and longitude based on location name with Google Autocomplete API

I hope this can help someone in the future.

You can use the Google Geocoding API, as said before, I had to do some work with this recently, I hope this helps:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <script src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?v=3.exp&sensor=false&libraries=places"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript">
        function initialize() {
        var address = (document.getElementById('my-address'));
        var autocomplete = new google.maps.places.Autocomplete(address);
        autocomplete.setTypes(['geocode']);
        google.maps.event.addListener(autocomplete, 'place_changed', function() {
            var place = autocomplete.getPlace();
            if (!place.geometry) {
                return;
            }

        var address = '';
        if (place.address_components) {
            address = [
                (place.address_components[0] && place.address_components[0].short_name || ''),
                (place.address_components[1] && place.address_components[1].short_name || ''),
                (place.address_components[2] && place.address_components[2].short_name || '')
                ].join(' ');
        }
      });
}
function codeAddress() {
    geocoder = new google.maps.Geocoder();
    var address = document.getElementById("my-address").value;
    geocoder.geocode( { 'address': address}, function(results, status) {
      if (status == google.maps.GeocoderStatus.OK) {

      alert("Latitude: "+results[0].geometry.location.lat());
      alert("Longitude: "+results[0].geometry.location.lng());
      } 

      else {
        alert("Geocode was not successful for the following reason: " + status);
      }
    });
  }
google.maps.event.addDomListener(window, 'load', initialize);

        </script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <input type="text" id="my-address">
        <button id="getCords" onClick="codeAddress();">getLat&Long</button>
    </body>
</html>

Now this has also an autocomlpete function which you can see in the code, it fetches the address from the input and gets auto completed by the API while typing.

Once you have your address hit the button and you get your results via alert as required. Please also note this uses the latest API and it loads the 'places' library (when calling the API uses the 'libraries' parameter).

Hope this helps, and read the documentation for more information, cheers.

Edit #1: Fiddle

http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/OUTPUT?address=YOUR_LOCATION&sensor=true

OUTPUT = json or xml;

for detail information about google map api go through url:

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/geocoding/index.html

Hope this will help

Enter the location by Autocomplete and rest of all the fields: latitude and Longititude values get automatically filled.
Replace API KEY with your Google API key

<html>
<head>
<meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no">
<meta charset="utf-8">
<script src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?v=3.exp&sensor=false&libraries=places"></script>

<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:300,400,500">
</head>

<body>
<textarea placeholder="Enter Area name to populate Latitude and Longitude" name="address" onFocus="initializeAutocomplete()" id="locality" ></textarea><br>

<input type="text" name="city" id="city" placeholder="City" value="" ><br>
<input type="text" name="latitude" id="latitude" placeholder="Latitude" value="" ><br>
<input type="text" name="longitude" id="longitude" placeholder="Longitude" value="" ><br>
<input type="text" name="place_id" id="location_id" placeholder="Location Ids" value="" ><br>

<script type="text/javascript">
  function initializeAutocomplete(){
    var input = document.getElementById('locality');
    // var options = {
    //   types: ['(regions)'],
    //   componentRestrictions: {country: "IN"}
    // };
    var options = {}

    var autocomplete = new google.maps.places.Autocomplete(input, options);

    google.maps.event.addListener(autocomplete, 'place_changed', function() {
      var place = autocomplete.getPlace();
      var lat = place.geometry.location.lat();
      var lng = place.geometry.location.lng();
      var placeId = place.place_id;
      // to set city name, using the locality param
      var componentForm = {
        locality: 'short_name',
      };
      for (var i = 0; i < place.address_components.length; i++) {
        var addressType = place.address_components[i].types[0];
        if (componentForm[addressType]) {
          var val = place.address_components[i][componentForm[addressType]];
          document.getElementById("city").value = val;
        }
      }
      document.getElementById("latitude").value = lat;
      document.getElementById("longitude").value = lng;
      document.getElementById("location_id").value = placeId;
    });
  }
</script>
</body>
</html>

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="//maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?libraries=places&key=API KEY"></script>


<script src="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:300,400,500></script>