City is null when searching address in NYC

[brandonbryant12]

This will return

await geocoder.geocode({
            '407 Adams Ave',
            'US',
         });

[
  {
    formattedAddress: '407 Adams Ave, Staten Island, NY 10306, USA',
    latitude: 40.5771522,
    longitude: -74.0931513,
    extra: {
      googlePlaceId: 'ChIJyfCeIsxOwokRuU1h1tTLLIs',
      confidence: 1,
      premise: null,
      subpremise: null,
      neighborhood: 'Midland Beach',
      establishment: null
    },
    administrativeLevels: {
      level2long: 'Richmond County',
      level2short: 'Richmond County',
      level1long: 'New York',
      level1short: 'NY'
    },
    streetNumber: '407',
    streetName: 'Adams Avenue',
    country: 'United States',
    countryCode: 'US',
    zipcode: '10306',
    provider: 'google'
  }
]

I have a service that depends on having the city field populated

[nchaulet]

Hi @brandonbryant12 Looks like google geocoder do not return a locality component for that address what is the expected city here? to see if we can improve it and find a good fallback if there is no locality

[brandonbryant12]

Hi @brandonbryant12 Looks like google geocoder do not return a locality component for that address what is the expected city here? to see if we can improve it and find a good fallback if there is no locality

This is in Staten Island NYC. Experienced the same thing for a user in the Bronx. I think it's a NYC thing afaik

[nchaulet]

The result from google geocoder looks like this maybe we can use the sublocality as a fallback, but it need a little more investigation to be sure it's a safe fallback

"results" : [
      {
         "address_components" : [
            {
               "long_name" : "407",
               "short_name" : "407",
               "types" : [ "street_number" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "Adams Avenue",
               "short_name" : "Adams Ave",
               "types" : [ "route" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "Midland Beach",
               "short_name" : "Midland Beach",
               "types" : [ "neighborhood", "political" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "Staten Island",
               "short_name" : "Staten Island",
               "types" : [ "political", "sublocality", "sublocality_level_1" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "Richmond County",
               "short_name" : "Richmond County",
               "types" : [ "administrative_area_level_2", "political" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "New York",
               "short_name" : "NY",
               "types" : [ "administrative_area_level_1", "political" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "United States",
               "short_name" : "US",
               "types" : [ "country", "political" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "10306",
               "short_name" : "10306",
               "types" : [ "postal_code" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "5237",
               "short_name" : "5237",
               "types" : [ "postal_code_suffix" ]
            }
         ],
         "formatted_address" : "407 Adams Ave, Staten Island, NY 10306, USA",
         "geometry" : {
            "bounds" : {
               "northeast" : {
                  "lat" : 40.5781923,
                  "lng" : -74.09489739999999
               },
               "southwest" : {
                  "lat" : 40.5780057,
                  "lng" : -74.09511169999999
               }
            },
            "location" : {
               "lat" : 40.5781315,
               "lng" : -74.0949888
            },
            "location_type" : "ROOFTOP",
            "viewport" : {
               "northeast" : {
                  "lat" : 40.5794094302915,
                  "lng" : -74.0936871697085
               },
               "southwest" : {
                  "lat" : 40.5767114697085,
                  "lng" : -74.09638513029151
               }
            }
         },
         "place_id" : "ChIJ0XTVVclOwokR7QkAK-R0HTc",
         "types" : [ "premise" ]
      }
   ]

[nchaulet]

Looks like it could work