Google Geocoding API returns wrong language in response

Question

My project requests Geocoding API for coordinates and correct full addresses in Odessa, Ukraine.

I could request response in Russian or Ukrainian language adding language=ru (language=uk) parameter to the HTTP request. Starting today I get street name in Ukrainian in response, no matter which language I specify in request.

Examples.

Request for Russian: https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=Пушкинская, Одесса, Украина&language=ru

Relevant part of the response:

"results" : [
  {
     "address_components" : [
        {
           "long_name" : "Пушкінська вулиця",
           "short_name" : "Пушкінська вулиця",
           "types" : [ "route" ]
        },
        {
           "long_name" : "Приморський район",
           "short_name" : "Приморський район",
           "types" : [ "sublocality_level_1", "sublocality", "political" ]
        },
        {
           "long_name" : "Одеса",
           "short_name" : "Одеса",
           "types" : [ "locality", "political" ]
        },
        {
           "long_name" : "Одесский горсовет",
           "short_name" : "Одесский горсовет",
           "types" : [ "administrative_area_level_3", "political" ]
        },
        {
           "long_name" : "Одеська область",
           "short_name" : "Одеська область",
           "types" : [ "administrative_area_level_1", "political" ]
        },
        {
           "long_name" : "Украина",
           "short_name" : "UA",
           "types" : [ "country", "political" ]
        }
     ],

Please note, that "country" and "administrative_area_level_3" fields are in Russian, as they should be, but everything else is in Ukrainian.

If I use language=uk all fields in the response are returned in Ukrainian language (as intended).

I suppose someone at Google merged Russian and Ukrainian lists, and there nothing I can do to get Russian names back on my end. So the question is more about where I should report this bug?

Answer 1

I used this
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=Пушкинская,%20Одесса,%20Украина&language=uk

and the response is

for
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=Пушкинская,%20Одесса,%20Украина&language=ukr

I get this response

if i use

https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=Пушкинская,%20Одесса,%20Украина&language=en

I get this response

Answer 2

You can report a geo-coding api issue here.

Hit "New Issue," and under "Template" select "Geocoding API - Bug."

Good luck.