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I have a form in my PHP application which searches for locations in europe: Germany, France, Poland, Czech Republic, Spain, Austria, Romania, Italy.

This is my base query:

$address = "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address={$input}";

If the users tries to find "mannheim" for example, it should return Mannheim, Germany. Instead it returns a point in Pennsylvania, US. I tried adding this address component restriction: &components=administrative_area:EU, but this is not reliable because instead of finding Mannheim Germany, it points to a place 300 km away:

https://www.google.ro/maps/dir/50.5320001,6.6364339/Mannheim/@50.0388399,8.4546225,7.25z/data=!4m8!4m7!1m0!1m5!1m1!1s0x4797cc24518e3f45:0xb1e4fe7aa406e687!2m2!1d8.4660395!2d49.4874592?hl=en

If I append , Germany:

$address = "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address={$input}, Germany";

then the response is correct.

Is there a way to specify some countries for which the search should happen?

A last resort is to make a separate search for each country, but this would be really slow given the ~10-12 countries I search in.

Cœur
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    check this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33387993/how-do-i-restrict-a-google-geocode-query-to-multiple-countries – Jakob Jul 11 '16 at 08:59

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restrict google search result via country restriction like this below:

var options = {
        componentRestrictions: {country: 'DE'}
      };

and place options parameter in Autocomplete or other function you are using.

var autocomplete = new google.maps.places.Autocomplete(input,options);
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  • This works fine for a single country, but I want to match places in multiple countries in a single request. As jakob pointed out correctly, this is not possible yet. – cili Jul 11 '16 at 09:31
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Looks like it's possible now: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/places-autocomplete-multiple-countries#maps_places_autocomplete_multiple_countries-javascript

  // Sets a listener on a given radio button. The radio buttons specify
  // the countries used to restrict the autocomplete search.
  function setupClickListener(id, countries) {
    const radioButton = document.getElementById(id);
    radioButton.addEventListener("click", () => {
      autocomplete.setComponentRestrictions({ country: countries });
    });
  }
  setupClickListener("changecountry-usa", "us");
  setupClickListener("changecountry-usa-and-uot", [
    "us",
    "pr",
    "vi",
    "gu",
    "mp",
  ]);
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According to google docs, we can add up to 5 countries in component filter https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/autocomplete

A grouping of places to which you would like to restrict your results. Currently, you can use components to filter by up to 5 countries. Countries must be passed as a two character, ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2 compatible country code. For example: components=country:fr would restrict your results to places within France. Multiple countries must be passed as multiple country:XX filters, with the pipe character | as a separator. For example: components=country:us|country:pr|country:vi|country:gu|country:mp would restrict your results to places within the United States and its unincorporated organized territories.

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