I am trying to convert a zip code into lat and lng using geocoder. I looked at the Google Maps Api example and followed several tutorials, but for some reason for lat and lng it returns "". Here is my code.
(function(window, google, address) {
var geocoder = new google.maps.Geocoder();
var lat = "";
var lng = "";
geocoder.geocode({
'address': address
}, function(results, status) {
var test = results[0];
lat = results[0].geometry.location.lat(); // lat is still equal to ""
lng = results[0].geometry.location.lng(); // lng is still equal to ""
});
var options = {
center: {
lat: lat,
lng: lng
},
zoom: 5
},
element = document.getElementById('map-canvas')
var map = new google.maps.Map(element, options)
}(window, window.google, 98107));html,
body,
#map-canvas {
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px
}<script src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js"></script>
<div id="map-canvas"></div>