Center on a country by name in Google Maps API v3

Question

Would someone tell me how to center on a country by name on the Google Maps API v3? I know how to do it in v2, but need to do it in v3.

Answer 1

You could use Geocoding to lookup the Lat/Lng of the country. Take a look at this sample from Google.

Basically you need to do something like this:

var country = "Germany"; var geocoder;  geocoder.geocode( {'address' : country}, function(results, status) {     if (status == google.maps.GeocoderStatus.OK) {         map.setCenter(results[0].geometry.location);     } }); 

In your initialize function you'll need to set the value of the geocoder object, like this:

geocoder = new google.maps.Geocoder(); 

You'd need to workout what an appropriate zoom level would be, and then set that after you have centered the map.

Answer 2

This code working for me:

      let geocoder = new google.maps.Geocoder();       let location = "England";       geocoder.geocode({ 'address': location }, function(results, status){           if (status == google.maps.GeocoderStatus.OK) {               map.setCenter(results[0].geometry.location);           } else {               alert("Could not find location: " + location);           }       });