@capgo/nativegeocoder

Capacitor plugin for native forward and reverse geocoding

Install

npm install @capgo/nativegeocoder
npx cap sync

then import this into your code:

import { NativeGeocoder } from '@capgo/nativegeocoder';

iOS

Apple requires privacy descriptions to be specified in Info.plist for location information:

• NSLocationAlwaysUsageDescription (Privacy - Location Always Usage Description)
• NSLocationWhenInUseUsageDescription (Privacy - Location When In Use Usage Description)

Read about Configuring Info.plist in the iOS Guide for more information on setting iOS permissions in Xcode

Android

This API requires the following permissions be added to your AndroidManifest.xml:

<!-- Geolocation API -->
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" />
<uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.location.gps" />

API

• reverseGeocode(...)
• forwardGeocode(...)
• Interfaces

reverseGeocode(...)

reverseGeocode(options: ReverseOptions) => any

Convert latitude and longitude to an address

| Param | Type | | ------------- | --------------------------------------------------------- | | options | ReverseOptions |

Returns: any

Since: 0.0.1

forwardGeocode(...)

forwardGeocode(options: ForwardOptions) => any

Convert an address to latitude and longitude

| Param | Type | | ------------- | --------------------------------------------------------- | | options | ForwardOptions |

Returns: any

Since: 0.0.1

Interfaces

ReverseOptions

| Prop | Type | Description | | ------------------- | -------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | latitude | number | latitude is a number representing the latitude of the location. | | longitude | number | longitude is a number representing the longitude of the location. | | useLocale | boolean | Localise the results to the given locale. | | defaultLocale | string | locale is a string in the format of language_country, for example en_US. | | maxResults | number | Max number of results to return. | | apiKey | string | Only used for web platform to use google api |

Address

| Prop | Type | | --------------------------- | ------------------- | | latitude | number | | longitude | number | | countryCode | string | | countryName | string | | postalCode | string | | administrativeArea | string | | subAdministrativeArea | string | | locality | string | | subLocality | string | | thoroughfare | string | | subThoroughfare | string | | areasOfInterest | {} |

ForwardOptions

| Prop | Type | Description | | ------------------- | -------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | addressString | string | address is a string of the address to be geocoded. | | useLocale | boolean | Localise the results to the given locale. | | defaultLocale | string | locale is a string in the format of language_country, for example en_US. | | maxResults | number | Max number of results to return. | | apiKey | string | Only used for web platform to use google api |

Thanks

To @sebastianbaar and his work on cordova-plugin-nativegeocoder what he made was very inspiring