Get the Address for a Place ID

This example uses geocoding to retrieve an address for a given place ID.

Read the documentation.

TypeScript

// Initialize the map.
async function initMap(): Promise<void> {
    const [{ Geocoder }, { InfoWindow }] = await Promise.all([
        google.maps.importLibrary('geocoding'),
        google.maps.importLibrary('maps'),
        google.maps.importLibrary('marker'),
    ]);

    const mapElement = document.querySelector('gmp-map')!;
    const innerMap = mapElement.innerMap;
    const geocoder = new Geocoder();
    const infoWindow = new InfoWindow();

    document.getElementById('submit')!.addEventListener('click', () => {
        void geocodePlaceId(geocoder, innerMap, infoWindow);
    });
}

// This function is called when the user clicks the UI button.
async function geocodePlaceId(
    geocoder: google.maps.Geocoder,
    map: google.maps.Map,
    infoWindow: google.maps.InfoWindow
) {
    const placeId = (document.getElementById('place-id') as HTMLInputElement)
        .value;

    const { AdvancedMarkerElement } = await google.maps.importLibrary('marker');

    const { results } = await geocoder.geocode({ placeId: placeId });
    if (results[0]) {
        map.setZoom(11);
        map.setCenter(results[0].geometry.location);

        const marker = new AdvancedMarkerElement({
            map,
            position: results[0].geometry.location,
        });

        infoWindow.setContent(results[0].formatted_address);
        infoWindow.open(map, marker);
    } else {
        window.alert('No results found');
    }
}

void initMap();

JavaScript

// Initialize the map.
async function initMap() {
    const [{ Geocoder }, { InfoWindow }] = await Promise.all([
        google.maps.importLibrary('geocoding'),
        google.maps.importLibrary('maps'),
        google.maps.importLibrary('marker'),
    ]);

    const mapElement = document.querySelector('gmp-map');
    const innerMap = mapElement.innerMap;
    const geocoder = new Geocoder();
    const infoWindow = new InfoWindow();

    document.getElementById('submit').addEventListener('click', () => {
        void geocodePlaceId(geocoder, innerMap, infoWindow);
    });
}

// This function is called when the user clicks the UI button.
async function geocodePlaceId(geocoder, map, infoWindow) {
    const placeId = document.getElementById('place-id').value;

    const { AdvancedMarkerElement } = await google.maps.importLibrary('marker');

    const { results } = await geocoder.geocode({ placeId: placeId });
    if (results[0]) {
        map.setZoom(11);
        map.setCenter(results[0].geometry.location);

        const marker = new AdvancedMarkerElement({
            map,
            position: results[0].geometry.location,
        });

        infoWindow.setContent(results[0].formatted_address);
        infoWindow.open(map, marker);
    } else {
        window.alert('No results found');
    }
}

void initMap();

CSS

/* 
 * Optional: Makes the sample page fill the window. 
 */
html,
body {
    height: 100%;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
}

#floating-panel {
    background-color: #fff;
    padding: 5px;
    border: 1px solid #999;
    border-radius: 5px;
    text-align: center;
    font-family: 'Roboto', sans-serif;
    line-height: 30px;
    padding-left: 10px;
    margin-top: 10px;
}

#place-id {
    width: 250px;
}

HTML

<html>
    <head>
        <title>Retrieving an Address for a Place ID</title>

        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./style.css" />
        <script type="module" src="./index.js"></script>
        <script>
            // prettier-ignore
            (g=>{var h,a,k,p="The Google Maps JavaScript API",c="google",l="importLibrary",q="__ib__",m=document,b=window;b=b[c]||(b[c]={});var d=b.maps||(b.maps={}),r=new Set,e=new URLSearchParams,u=()=>h||(h=new Promise(async(f,n)=>{await (a=m.createElement("script"));e.set("libraries",[...r]+"");for(k in g)e.set(k.replace(/[A-Z]/g,t=>"_"+t[0].toLowerCase()),g[k]);e.set("callback",c+".maps."+q);a.src=`https://maps.${c}apis.com/maps/api/js?`+e;d[q]=f;a.onerror=()=>h=n(Error(p+" could not load."));a.nonce=m.querySelector("script[nonce]")?.nonce||"";m.head.append(a)}));d[l]?console.warn(p+" only loads once. Ignoring:",g):d[l]=(f,...n)=>r.add(f)&&u().then(()=>d[l](f,...n))})({
                key: "AIzaSyA6myHzS10YXdcazAFalmXvDkrYCp5cLc8" 
            });
        </script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <gmp-map center="40.72,-73.96" zoom="8" map-id="DEMO_MAP_ID">
            <div id="floating-panel" slot="control-block-start-inline-center">
                <!-- Supply a default place ID for a place in Brooklyn, New York. -->
                <input
                    id="place-id"
                    type="text"
                    value="ChIJd8BlQ2BZwokRAFUEcm_qrcA" />
                <input
                    id="submit"
                    type="button"
                    value="Get Address for Place ID" />
            </div>
        </gmp-map>
    </body>
</html>

Try Sample

Clone Sample

Git and Node.js are required to run this sample locally. Follow these instructions to install Node.js and NPM. The following commands clone, install dependencies and start the sample application. 

  git clone https://github.com/googlemaps-samples/js-api-samples.git
  cd samples/geocoding-place-id
  npm i
  npm start