Google map property, saving or extracting individual address lines

• AdamACF

• April 2, 2015 at 9:58 pm

I see that the google map feature in ACF Pro 5 saves the address as a single string.

I will need an export feature in the site I am developing and the target of the exports is expecting a split address into each line as a separate string. It seems that handling this is going to be a nightmare. Has anyone else encountered this problem and found a solution?

• randomlines

• April 3, 2015 at 2:45 am

I edited core code to do this, but a better approach might be to use the saved lat/long to query google and get exactly the components you want.

Just send it through this and it’ll give you JSON:
http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?latlng=44.4647452,7.3553838

• AdamACF

• April 3, 2015 at 2:47 am

@randomlines Ah brilliant thanks so much, that second idea is just what I was after. I didn’t realise the google API was quite so helpful and easy to use.

Thanks so much

• AdamACF

• April 3, 2015 at 7:56 pm

@randomlines I just had a thought though; how specific are googles geocode entries… would they always locate to the correct house number?