Setting ACF Google Map from address

• jordiivf

• February 27, 2018 at 4:11 am

Hi everybody,

I’m trying to fetch some post from an external resource which proved me an address/country and I was trying to import them as a post into WP, using one location ACF filed as a Google Map. I’m seeing that the data that this object save is something like:
a:3:{s:7:"address";s:42:"Poland";s:3:"lat";s:11:"51.919438";s:3:"lng";s:18:"19.145136";}

And I was thinking how to get y Country field and transform it to coordinates, thought google maps API, but I’m getting a different data from this below url:
https://maps.google.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=Poland&key=YOUR_API`

{
   "results" : [
      {
         "address_components" : [
            {
               "long_name" : "Poland",
               "short_name" : "PL",
               "types" : [ "country", "political" ]
            }
         ],
         "formatted_address" : "Poland",
         "geometry" : {
            "bounds" : {
               "northeast" : {
                  "lat" : 54.9054761,
                  "lng" : 24.1458932
               },
               "southwest" : {
                  "lat" : 49.0020252,
                  "lng" : 14.1228641
               }
            },
            "location" : {
               "lat" : 51.919438,
               "lng" : 19.145136
            },
            "location_type" : "APPROXIMATE",
            "viewport" : {
               "northeast" : {
                  "lat" : 54.9054761,
                  "lng" : 24.1458932
               },
               "southwest" : {
                  "lat" : 49.0020252,
                  "lng" : 14.1228641
               }
            }
         },
         "place_id" : "ChIJuwtkpGSZAEcR6lXMScpzdQk",
         "types" : [ "country", "political" ]
      }
   ],
   "status" : "OK"
}

There is no way to parse it (As far as I know) to the other data that acf google maps save, so I was wondering if anyone knows how to set those google map objects from the ACF just from an address (e.g. Poland).

Thanks in advance