Reverse Geocoder only returning 10 results

Question

The reverse geocoding only returns the nearest 10 results, so, in some cases, the country is not included.

(this should return all the way up to the USA, but it only goes to New York)

Even if I supply the result_type=country parameter, USA won't be in the results, instead, the result array is empty:

https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?latlng=40.714224,-73.961452&result_type=country (note you'll need to add your google api key) I did not find this behaviour documented, nor did I find any mention of it somewhere else.

Is this a limit that is enforced for free api keys or did I miss some documentation about this?

That looks like a bug really. 1) It works fine for a good number of other random coordinates that I tried, and 2) It works for the "same" coordinates if they are less precise (2 decimals only in this case) ie. maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/… — MrUpsidown
Looks like this issue has already been reported: issuetracker.google.com/issues/35830435 you might want to report your case as well. — MrUpsidown

xomena xomena · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-27T12:57:00

I believe this issue for reverse geocoding has already been reported in the public issue tracker:

Please add your examples in the public issue and star it to receive updates from Google.

Hope it helps!