google suggested city name autocomplete

Question

I'm trying to build a web page in which I want to use google suggested city/state name combinations when user starts typing their address, it auto completes the city and state just like in google maps.

For reference visit this URL:

Google Maps

When someone start typing in top left green A box. it gives you auto suggested list.

Can any one help me do the same thing for my web site? Or is there such google api exist that I can use?

Thanks

Answer 1

Job for the Places AutoComplete API :-)

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/places.html

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/places/autocomplete.html

Answer 2

Is there a reason it has to be google suggested names?

Here's an api that provides autocomplete for city names plus a lot of extra data you can squeeze out about the city (population, life quality data, even photo)

http://developers.teleport.org/api/

more specifically the widget http://developers.teleport.org/api/autocomplete_widget/