Simple async remote service wrapper. ToDo: Needs to validate & parse the remote JSON response

simple-geocoder-wrapper.js

var API_KEY = '';// <<-- '<__YOUR_KEY__HERE__>';

module.exports = function _geocode(address, callback) {
  require('request')
  .get('https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?region=us&address=' + encodeURIComponent(address) + '&key=' + encodeURIComponent(API_KEY))
  .on('response', function(response) {
    callback(null, response);
  }).on('error', function(err) {
    callback(err);
  });
}