Can you post the code that doesn't work? I went into my app and
searched for New York and got New York City. Every thing I've ever
searched for with GmmGeocoder has worked. Geocoder, on the other hand,
only has a handful of addresses.
On Mar 24, 3:33 pm, q2dm1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry to bump, but it seems that the GmmGeocoder service only uses a
> couple of actual addresses. "White" yields a couple of cities in the
> States, whereas "New York" does nothing. Can anyonne confirm that?
>
> On Feb 22, 12:55 am, "Dan U." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Megha is correct in that it's not supported, but if you are looking
> > for *actual* functionality in order to impress challenge judges,
> > Geocoder falls flat on its face. It's sort of a tradeoff on what you
> > want. Personally, I'd like to impress the judges now and change my
> > code later to use the supported api when it performs acceptably. I can
> > only hope either Geocoder works well in the next sdk or thatGmmGeocoderis
> > still there. If not, I might not upgrade prior to
> > challenge submission.
>
> > On Feb 21, 3:43 pm, "Megha Joshi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > Hi,
>
> > > TheGmmGeocoderAPI should not be used. It is not supported in the current
> > > release of the SDK.
>
> > > Please see the code below for an example of using GeoCoder APIs:
>
> > > public class MyGeocoder implements Runnable {
>
> > > public void run() {
> > > Locale locale = new Locale("en", "us");
> > > Geocoder g = new Geocoder(locale);
> > > try {
> > > Address[] addresses1 =
> > > g.getFromBusinessName("Zachary's Chicago Pizza",
> > > 0.0, 0.0, 180.0, 360.0);
> > > if (addresses1 == null) {
> > > throw new RuntimeException();
> > > }
> > > HashSet<String> addrSet = new HashSet<String>();
> > > for (Address a : addresses1) {
> > > addrSet.add(a.getAddressLine(0));
> > > }
>
> > > if (addrSet.size() != 3) {
> > > throw new RuntimeException();
> > > }
> > > if (!addrSet.contains("5801 College Ave")) {
> > > throw new RuntimeException();
> > > }
> > > if (!addrSet.contains("1853 Solano Ave")) {
> > > throw new RuntimeException();
> > > }
> > > if (!addrSet.contains("3110 Crow Canyon Road")) {
> > > throw new RuntimeException();
> > > }
> > > } catch (IOException ioe1) {
> > > Log.e("GeocoderTest", "ioe1 = " + ioe1);
> > > throw new RuntimeException();
> > > }
>
> > > try {
> > > Address[] addresses2 =
> > > g.getFromLocationName("1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington
> > > D.C
> > > .",
> > > 0.0, 0.0, 180.0, 360.0);
> > > if (addresses2 == null) {
> > > throw new RuntimeException();
> > > }
> > > if (addresses2.length != 1) {
> > > throw new RuntimeException();
> > > }
>
> > > Address addr = addresses2[0];
> > > if (!addr.getAddressLine(0).
> > > equals("1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW")) {
> > > throw new RuntimeException();
> > > }
> > > if (!addr.getAddressLine(1).
> > > equals("Washington, DC 20006")) {
> > > throw new RuntimeException();
> > > }
> > > if (!addr.getLocality().equals("Washington")) {
> > > throw new RuntimeException();
> > > }
> > > if (!addr.getRegion().equals("DC")) {
> > > throw new RuntimeException();
> > > }
> > > if (!addr.getPostalCode().equals("20006")) {
> > > throw new RuntimeException();
> > > }
> > > if (Math.abs(addr.getLatitude() - 38.898763) > 0.1) {
> > > throw new RuntimeException();
> > > }
> > > if (Math.abs(addr.getLongitude() - (-77.036655)) > 0.1) {
> > > throw new RuntimeException();
> > > }
> > > } catch (IOException ioe2) {
> > > Log.e("GeocoderTest", "ioe2 = " + ioe2);
> > > throw new RuntimeException();
> > > }
> > > }
>
> > > }
>
> > > Let us know if you face any issues..
> > > Also, you can use a *BUMP* to highlight posts where you don't find a
> > > solution after lots of discussions and we will try to address them :)
>
> > > Thanks,
> > > Megha
>
> > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Dan U. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > > I attempted to useGmmGeocoderfor this. What I saw was that
> > > > apparently the query type integer that got passed in and sent to
> > > > googles glm server (http://www.google.com/glm/mmap) for reverse
> > > > lookups was incorrect. I don't know what the correct one is, or if
> > > > there is one. I instead tried QUERY_TYPE_LOCATION as the type and got
> > > > a response. It was smart enough to parse the lat/long into degrees/
> > > > minutes/seconds, but not enough to tell me any address information. It
> > > > looks to me like reverse geocoding is not working yet, but I might be
> > > > wrong.
>
> > > > On Feb 21, 12:45 am, rezar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > Hi
>
> > > > > Does anybody make any success using geoCoder to convert location to
> > > > > address ?
> > > > > Few days ago there are lots of discussion, but nobody was successful.
>
> > > > > Thank you
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