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This is a great need

I need to restrict geocode answers to Europe or other areas like South America. This will be a very easy way to do that. Much more easier than parsing all the results.

I would like to bring other places can be reached by road from one place. Eg. Africa, Europe, Asia, or South America, North America

please we also need this feature very urgent for autocompleting Switzerland and the principality of Lichtenstein...!

it would be wonderful to limit multiple countries (like US and Canada)

+1. My client needs to be able to restrict results to USA and Mexico only.

is there any solution yet?

i need this real bad as well! Thanks in advanced

common Google... this is highly needed!

Highly needed indeed.
Could you please tell us if you have planned to add this feature ?

This would be a great feature. Very useful, indeed.

I also apply to restrict multiple countries e.g. german speaking like Germany, Austria, Switzerland

Its a must have feature that Google should add.

I also apply...

Really need this feature

I can't use the API without this feature. Thank you for your work.

I'm looking for a similar function, I need to restrict it to a continent, or multiple countries within that continent (Africa).

It would be great to be able to define something like this for multiple countries restriction:
componentRestrictions: {
  country: ['us', 'ca']
}

I too want to restrict the use to AU/NZ.

I agree that US and CA is a great need for us doing business in those parts of North America.

We really need this!

It would be nice to have this feature (something like: country: ['us', 'ca'])

This would be amazing to have.  

Really could use this.  Trying to restrict to USA and Canada only.  As of now my brothers from the north get no auto-complete :(

also waiting!

This is an excellent idea! I am developing a system that will need the results to be restricted to Europe, so at least an option to restrict to larger regions or areas would be truly welcome!

Please, we need this!

we need it... in any form
json, array comma separate.. whatever.. please help!

This is essential for the Island of Ireland, made up as it is of The Republic of Ireland (ie) and Northern Ireland (gb - as it is part of "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" as Google mentions as an example on their Geocoding page)

To implement an autocomplete search box restricted to just the island of Ireland is impossible as none of the Northern Ireland addresses return suggestions if "ie" is specified and specifying "gb" will return Northern Ireland AND the rest of the UK - a completely different island/geo-political area.

i would love you if you offer an option like "restrictedTo":"ISO 3166 Code" and only return matching results, very great need

As well as specifying multiple countries, it would be useful to specify a preference order. Eg setting country to "IE, GB" would return IE matches first in preference to GB matches.

The viewport biasing option doesn't work very well.

As well as specifying multiple countries, it would be useful to specify a preference order. Eg setting country to "IE, GB" would return IE matches first in preference to GB matches.

The viewport biasing option doesn't work very well.

Actually, a bit more experimentation shows that the biasing function does work very well - for the Northern Ireland/Ireland problem, I'm able to set a bounds property, and this brings back a good set of predictions for Ireland as a whole. It's not part of the componentRestrictions, but could be useful as an alternative solution.

These are the bounds I'm using for the island of Ireland.
bounds=new google.maps.LatLngBounds(new google.maps.LatLng(51.16694,-10.33001),
          new google.maps.LatLng(55.15232,-5.0190));

@Gavin - thanks for this. The only issue with this is that it will still show locations outside those bounds, locations inside the bounds get preferential display. e.g. "Oma" shows "Omagh"(Co. Tyrone) first then "Oman" and "Omaha".

yes, it could be very useful

It would be more useful than sliced bread when you don't have a knife.

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I really need this option
componentRestrictions: country: ['us', 'uk']  

I need this too!

I need this too!

Is there anyway to achieve similar behaviour in the meantime other than making multiple queries and combining the results? The use case of US + Canada would be so useful, and unfortunately, region biasing doesn't work well enough in place of this. +1

Yes please pretty please !

Google, pleeeeeeeease!

Google, what's up? Such an old issue that shouldn't be too hard to resolve but is impossible to work around on the client...?!

Please, We need it too~~

Pretty please?

Any plans on this functionnality? ;)

I want US + Mexico Locations in auto populate. is it possible?

#51 No, that is not possible. That is what this change request is about. But it's open for two years now and Google has not said if and when it is gonna solve the problem...

We also provide this autocomplete service for one of our customers who is in germany, austria and switzerland.

We are really looking forward to have something like this:

...
componentRestrictions: {
    country: ['at','ch','de']
}
...

or a similar workaround to get all cities from (de,at,ch)...

I would be nice also, if possible, to have the option to exclude a country from the results

restriction by the bounds of map is not always helping. many times i need to restrict by the countries  on the different part of the world (like us + eu countries).

still waiting for that

want this so badly!

i need sk and cz please

Would be great to see some progress on this issue. Seems like a simple enough request that would make sense for Google to develop. Providing an array of country codes would be awesome to restrict geocode results to certain countries, and would probably also make everything faster, too.

I need it with FR  and his overseas departments and territories (DOM TOM : Guadeloupe, French Polynesia ...)

Or simply include the overseas departments from every contries..

Like France > FR + (Martinique MQ, Guadeloupe QP, French Guiana GF, Mayotte YT)

Like United Kingdom > GB + (Gibraltar GI ...)

It could be very useful...

My client needs to be able to restrict results to USA and its territories.

open for 2 years? does this  issue have any chance of getting implemented anytime soon? i can add Australia to your list. I am working on an app at the moment that provides data for Australia and its external territories (which are not covered under 'au'). does anyone at least have a suggestion on how it could be done?

We have created a workaround by providing a selectbox for visitors to choose among available countries. See a working demo here: http://booking.adriatic-transfers.com

Was just learning to use places library, and ran into this problem immediately! Would love a resolution :)

+1 this seems like a no brainer, why wouldn't it be available.

Reported on Jun 26, 2012 and still no update?

Bing maps ftw! *sigh*

+1 also for us, we really need this for Western Europe restriction... Still no solution after all these requests & more than 2 years ?!

Still no update on this?
We need something like country: {us,ca}

upvote here too! :-)

I also need to restrict geocode answers to Europe or other regions.
Upvote here!

upvote here!

Upvote here !

I'm also looking for ['us', ca'] as an option.

Same here, we want to get us and ca results only.

we NEED this! relationship between USA and CANADA depends on this...kind of a big deal

Until Google allows you to pass an array to the 'region' filter, there is a workaround:

if (status!=='OK') {
  // Search using another 'region'
}

Repeat for each region.

P.S. The above assumes you are restricting by region:'au'. If you are restricting by componentRestrictions:{country:'au'}, then you can do something like this:

if (results[0].formatted_address==='Australia') {
  // Search using componentRestrictions:{country:'nz'}
}

This is because when no address is found, the formatted_address will be set to the country name.

This workaround means 10+ lookups to cover a fraction of western Europe :(

#80, there is another way: define a boundary for your countries, then use the 'bounds' filter.

#81 Yes, thanks, already implemented !

But it is not as precise as restrictions :
- when autocompleting, I still see places from all over the world
- if I want to cover, let's say, France and Germany, I would also include parts of UK, Italy...

Please allow us to filter by multiple countries! It is so necessary when using Maps from smaller countries or near borders with other countries (europe, singapore).

Re-support WebGL for Street View Services.  Bring mobile spherical projections back on Street View Services.  With the new embed api, street view embeds are worthless on mobile.

still badly needed

ugly, probably buggy, but worked for me:

geocoder.geocode({ 'address': address + ', Deutschland OR Österreich OR Schweiz' }, function (results, status)

We need this feature.

I need this too!

Come on Google! 180 of us want this!

After two years waiting, I do not need it anymore ;)

Come on Google don't be evil, give us this shit!

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My application have this requirement. If we can search from whole world than we should be able to search from two countries too.

please provide us that

Can we please get an update on if this issue will ever be addressed?

It seems I forgot to post my workaround here. I put it on stackoverflow so more people could find it. I basically get predictions for each country needed, and created a custom autocomplete popup to list the results. In my case I only needed to check for another country (luxemburg) when the current site was in belgium.

Hope this helps some people here..

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26753846/fill-google-maps-autocomplete-with-prediction-results/26886685#26886685 

2 1/2 years... please, Google, go on! Can't be that difficult to implement this

We initially had a combobox with countries. Now we check on the server if the location is in our list of valid countries and provide error messages if it's outside of the valid list.

This problem can easily be solved by gathering information on the autocomplete.

See this link to fetch data about the location
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/places-autocomplete-addressform

This line of code is the part to be changed. It need to be equals to your country code(s):
place.address_components[i][componentForm[addressType]];

Still no solution from Google?
I am getting mad with this issue!

This would be a fantastic feature and I'm adding my vote. In the meantime, thanks to the people above who've posted several workarounds (luckily I only need to geocode for the UK and ROI).

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The ability to filter by continents at least would be very useful.

would very much appreciate this feature.

componentRestrictions: {
  country: ['aus', 'nz']
}

Need the capability for lookups like "near Basel" or ?components=country:CH,DE,FR

same same for overseas territories, it's really painful...

Still waiting for a response on this one... would be really useful to restrict/bias geocode results to adjoining countries (eg Ireland and Northern Ireland/GB)

Still no solution?

About 3 yrs later and still no solution. Thats poor, Google...

Needed this for project. Sad to see it's not part of the API by now.

Adding my request for this. Working on a project which wishes to be able to restrict to a small range of countries; currently the API only allows a single country, or all. Neither is close to what we want.

Dear Google, Please have this in API.

Come on programmers, wake up!!
We need this:

componentRestrictions: {
  country: ['us', 'ca']
}

Just change your query from '=' to 'in()', should not take more than 5 minutes.

I need this too. thx

it will be great if we have something like
componentRestrictions: {
  country: ['us', 'ca']
}

Please, we all nedd this!

I hoped that by now this feature will be implemented, last time I checked for this it was 2 years ago and still nothing, I don´t think this is something very hard to do unless you guys are dealing with extreme bureaucracy. please implement it

+1 I need to limit it to the United States and Canada.


Can we at least get an update on this?

yes please...

Please this feature is badly needed !!!!

This bug is three years old, and has not made it past the "Acknowledged" status.  Judging by the comments, there are a *lot* of people that require this feature.  I should not have to issue two requests and merge their results just to handle this.

Come on Google, get it together.

when is this going to be possible?
componentRestrictions: {
  country: ['us', 'ca']
}

The fact that I cannot limit my google search to North America drives me crazy.  I live in Canada & get a real lot of U.K. results. I don't want to limit my search to just Canada or just U.S.  I just want my continent only - not overseas!

Can we get any official answer on this? It seems 3 years should be a long enough time to implement this?

Hi to anyone who has raised comments here - please add additional comments and with a bit of luck somebody at Google will get annoyed with getting their inbox full of the same issue and might do something about it.

A response from Google would be appreciated - multiple choice options below to make it simple!
a) won't do
b) working on it, won't be long
c) already done and waiting release...

Hey Gavin, while I understand your intent with your request to everyone who has starred this bug, I have to point out that we, as Googlers, have a policy of not commenting on future product direction. Deciding on future product direction is a collaborative effort between many different teams with different goals and stakeholder requirements. While filling up my inbox may impact me, it is the number of stars on an issue that the product managers really review when seeking guidance from our bug trackers. Thanks!

hi breetmor.... (googler),
are 278 people who starred this issue in the last 3years not enough?
ralf

Hi brettmor...: nice to hear from you! Apologies for the inbox filling incitement - was having a particularly frustrating day dealing with this issue in yet another project.

If you sort the features list by number of stars, this is second on the list so obviously in high demand (after styled maps which is understandably more complex).
I understand you don't want to reveal what you're working on, but do you think three years an acceptable length of time not to do anything with this issue? Is there an alternative channel to raise the priority on this one eg through our Maps-for-work account manager?

Hey Gavin,

If you are a Maps for Work customer, by all means raise this as a ticket on the support portal.

As to how product managers make decisions, I know they take into account the number of stars on an issue, but they also take into account other technical, product and business directions when making these engineering effort prioritization decisions.

I share your (collective) frustration here, but I can't make promises on future product direction.

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Would love to have this feature, thanks for all your hard work Brett!

Hi to all,

Have just had a comment from Google via a Maps-For-Work request for this feature:

"I am sorry to tell you that given the current backend, there is no plan to implement this feature."


I guess we'll have to wait for them to update the backend then...

Oh my god! This issue since 3 years ago :(

This is greatly needed for french overseas departments

finally i got solution for this issue.. i hope this code will work..try this
**************************************************************
  var input = document.getElementById('pac-input');
    var options = {
        types: ['(cities)'],
        componentRestrictions: { country: 'in' }
    };
   
    var options1 = {
        types: ['(cities)'],
        componentRestrictions: { country: 'au' }
    };

   autocomplete = new google.maps.places.Autocomplete(input, options);

    autocomplete.addListener('place_changed', function () {
        var place = autocomplete.getPlace();
        var lat = parseFloat(place.geometry.location.lat()).toFixed(4);
        var long = parseFloat(place.geometry.location.lng()).toFixed(4);
        map.setView(new L.LatLng(lat, long), 18);
    });

    autocomplete = new google.maps.places.Autocomplete(input, options1);

    autocomplete.addListener('place_changed', function () {
        var place = autocomplete.getPlace();
        var lat = parseFloat(place.geometry.location.lat()).toFixed(4);
        var long = parseFloat(place.geometry.location.lng()).toFixed(4);
        map.setView(new L.LatLng(lat, long), 18);
    });
*************************
Cheers,
Kamaraj k

Three years and hundreds of stars later and this obviously needed feature hasn't made it in. Not very encouraging. Hopefully a competitor can do this.

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I need this feature as well guys, why Google doesn't implement this?

Don't lose hope guys, this issues status is "accepted" since about one month. I guess Google is now working on that.

Throwing hat in as yet another dev really needing this.

Given the fact all overseas French territories are not included in the "France" geo search, we need this to give geographically & politically accurate responses to nation-wide queries in France.

can't believe that this isn't part of google maps api and hasn't bene addressed at all for so long!

I would like this feature

been waiting on this one too

I am also waiting for this feature !!

Need that too. Please implement!

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Waiting for this, I want autocomplete for french locations, but DOM-TOM are excluded. This is very annoying because in fact they are part of France event they have their own ISO code. (GO, MQ...)

We have the same problem here, DOM-TOM are part of FR and we have no way of querying them for our french users.

I have the same need. Please make this asap

I am in need of this too.

European countries are small, I need it 5 in once!

When are they planning on integrating this?

bump :/

Same here I need it too

Yes we need it please!

Gsgadhadara

Aaaaarg, damn it.  I really need the fix.
Guess they're not going to do it.

Another request for this feature, needing UK and Ireland with other countries to be added later.

Yes, plz

yes

A very useful feature. plz

Lol

Please, please do make his change!  It is vital for a project I'm working on

please for FR and DOM-TOM !

Please do it

It could be Very Very useful !
Many clients ask me for this feature here : stern-taxi-fare.sternwebagency.com
Thanks !

It would be useful if we can have filters on multiple countries like:
components=postal_code:96799|country:US,AS

where I can have the postal code of US and American Samoa

I don't know how complex this is to implement, but I see this is an incredibly old issue. I also need to be able to bias address autocomplete results to NA and not being able to do this with an option parameter makes me work on a freaking huge bounding rectangle to be able to receive the results I need. Hopefully, this will be implemented soon. Being able to restrict/bias search results by multiple countries (with priority) or continent, will be very useful.

I'm voting for this as well!

I need this too !

I've posted a workaround to Stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11290755/limit-google-maps-of-countries-in-the-autocomplete-list-to-india-usa-and-uk/36064059#36064059

The above workaround does work although it should have credited the original author http://mrruben.be/tech/gmaps-autocomplete-countries/

om namah shivay

Hurry up Google !

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4 years and still nothing?? comeon google! Very useful feature.

4 years and still nothing?? comeon google! Very useful feature.