Expo Location. Set language for reverse geocoding.

Hi!

I am not sure if this is possible to specify the language for the returned results using your Location API… but looking at the code I have seen that the only option which can be passed is “useGoogleMaps”.

/**
 * An object of options for forward and reverse geocoding.
 */
export declare type LocationGeocodingOptions = {
    /**
     * Whether to force using Google Maps API instead of the native implementation.
     * Used by default only on Web platform. Requires providing an API key by `setGoogleApiKey`.
     */
    useGoogleMaps?: boolean;
};

Fetching the Google Maps API, it is possible to do something like this:

fetch(
      `https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?latlng=${coordinate.latitude},${coordinate.longitude}&key=${Constants.manifest.ios.config.googleMapsApiKey}&language=en`
    )

But we will have to parse an array of objects by types

     "address_components" : [
            {
               "long_name" : "5",
               "short_name" : "5",
               "types" : [ "street_number" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "Calle Fernández Caballero",
               "short_name" : "Calle Fernández Caballero",
               "types" : [ "route" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "Cieza",
               "short_name" : "Cieza",
               "types" : [ "locality", "political" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "Murcia",
               "short_name" : "MU",
               "types" : [ "administrative_area_level_2", "political" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "Región de Murcia",
               "short_name" : "Región de Murcia",
               "types" : [ "administrative_area_level_1", "political" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "Spain",
               "short_name" : "ES",
               "types" : [ "country", "political" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "30530",
               "short_name" : "30530",
               "types" : [ "postal_code" ]
            }
         ],

for getting an object like the one your api returns:

/**
 * Type representing a result of `reverseGeocodeAsync`.
 */
export declare type LocationGeocodedAddress = {
    city: string | null;
    district: string | null;
    street: string | null;
    region: string | null;
    subregion: string | null;
    country: string | null;
    postalCode: string | null;
    name: string | null;
    isoCountryCode: string | null;
    timezone: string | null;
};

It would be good to have something like this:

Location.reverseGeocodeAsync(coordinate, { lang: "en" });

[EnginAyhan]

Location.reverseGeocodeAsync(coordinate, { lang: “en” }); I am looking for an update to return the results in english.

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