How to verify search locations for Radius Targeting

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Hi

We are aware that proximity targeting is implemented using only the CampaignCriterionService for Radius Targeting.

Now that we know this, we would like to approach the matter in different way.  

When entering locations for Radius targeting, how can we verify the inserted item matches one of these - country, city, postal code, street address?

For instance, if I enter 'yeoksamdong', how can we know entered item is whether city or street address.

AdWords seems to verify this automatically and give us result, but we were wondering how it's done through API. 

Please note we are not trying to create targetable locations as seen in the AdWords UI(Not supported in AdWords API), but only trying to find out how to verify items entered with right type of location object.

Thank you :)

Jiwon

[Vincent Racaza (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Jiwon,

Currently, there's no way to verify if the provided location information is country, city, postal code or street address via AdWords API. In the UI for radius targeting, if you'll search for a location, it may provide you the whole address (this also depends on the searched location). However, in the API, there is no feature yet that allows you to search and provide you the whole location with the breakdown of country, city, etc. Please note that Radius targets are treated as Proximity Object and not as Location Object.

The only thing you can do with Radius Targets via the AdWords API is to create and target Radius targets via CampaignCriterionService.mutate() or retrieve existing Radius Target/s of a campaign via CampaignCriterionService.get() or CampaignCriterionService.query().

With this, you can only retrieve the geoPoint (latitude and longitude pair) and the specified address Information (if existing) of a Radius target of a campaign such as country, city, postal code and street address via the address field.

Let me know if you have further clarifications.

Thanks,

Vincent

AdWords API Team