需要Google地理编码以英语返回城市名称 [英] Need Google Geocoding to return City name in English

问题描述

我有以下代码可用于要求Google纠正输入的地址，并需要它返回城市的英文名称:

I have this code for requesting google to correct the typed in address, and need it to return the English name for the city:

function gmap_query_xml($in_address) {
  $base_url = "http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?output=xml&region=US&language=en&key=". KEY;
  $request_url = $base_url . "&q=" . urlencode($in_address);
  return simplexml_load_file($request_url);
}

然后

$xml = gmap_query_xml($in_address);

最后得到城市名称:

if ($xml) {
  $city = (string) $xml->Response->Placemark->AddressDetails->Country->AdministrativeArea->SubAdministrativeArea->Locality->LocalityName;
}

这将返回正确的城市名称，但是！，以本国语言表示.试试罗马-您得到罗姆人，再尝试基辅，您将得到Киев.

This returns the correct city name, BUT! it's represented in the native language. Try Rome - you get Roma, try Kiev and you will get Киев.

如何解决?谢谢！

推荐答案

在这方面似乎有些混乱.请参阅此Google Geocoding API错误报告列表.

There seems to be a bit of a chaos in that regard. See this list of Google Geocoding API bug reports.

您正在使用旧的V2 API.

You are using the old V2 API.

根据这篇文章和我自己的测试，新的 V3 API :

According to this post and my own tests, the new V3 API:

http://maps.google.com/maps/api/geocode/xml?address=Rome&sensor=false&language=en

对language参数更敏感，并且可以正确转换位置名称.我得到了language=en(罗马)，language=de(罗马)甚至language=fi(罗马)正确的结果！

is more sensitive to the language parameter and translates locality names correctly. I get correct results for language=en (Rome), language=de (Rom) and even language=fi (Rooma)!

但是，V3以不同的格式提供其地理编码结果，因此您必须大幅度地更改解析(由于addressComponents的结构方式，这也使我感到头疼).

However, V3 serves its geocoding results in a different format so you would have to change your parsing considerably (Due to the way addressComponents is structured now, this bugged the heck out of me too).

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