How to get the road name in google maps?

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drou picture drou · Aug 23, 2011 · Viewed 12.3k times · Source

i want to get ONLY the road name in google maps not exact address, using either the geocoder or the directions service.i tried this results[0].address_components[1].long_name but it returns several different names (not necesserily wrong) on the same road.

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ingh.am picture ingh.am · Dec 9, 2011

You need to do a reverse geocode lookup on the location. Google provide this: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/geocoding/

Read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_geocoding

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