Dependency-Free Google Places Autocomplete

gplaces.goodybag.com

AFAICT if you use this for business it's now very expensive / separate from Google Maps for Work

would be better as a webcomponent

Agreed! And creating a web component would be a trivial amount of code. We could definitely provide a distribution for that.

We would love to use the Polymer project at Goodybag, however, this has deterred us:

> IE8 is incompatible due to its insufficient DOM support.

Coding for IE8 compatibility is sadface