On Aug 20, 2009, at 6:23 PM, Artem Sav wrote:

> Yeah, sorry, about 2.3 minutes after posting this i actually found the
> issue in bug tracker for ajax api's.
> http://code.google.com/p/google-ajax-apis/issues/detail?id=169&q=zip&colspec=ID%20Type%20Stars%20Status%20Modified%20Summary%20APIType%20Opened
>
> And in there there was a comment about using maps to do that, which
> made me revisit the geocoder results. So i stand corrected - google
> maps api does return it.
>
> The only thing (and i am not sure this is a right place to ask, since
> this group doesn't deal with maps) is that there are actually at least
> two types of results returned:
> response.Placemark
> [0
> ].AddressDetails
> .Country
> .AdministrativeArea
> .SubAdministrativeArea.Locality.PostalCode.PostalCodeNumber;
> and
> response.Placemark
> [0
> ].AddressDetails
> .Country.AdministrativeArea.Locality.PostalCode.PostalCodeNumber;
>
> Beats me why there are SubAdministrativeArea (s) sometimes, and
> sometimes not.
>
> On Aug 20, 7:03 pm, Jeremy Geerdes <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Actually, you can use the GMaps geocoding service to get postal code
>> information. Check out the documentation here:
>>
>> http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/geocoding/
>>
>> And an example of the JSON response (look for the PostalCode portion
>> near the top) here:
>>
>> http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=1600+Amphitheatre+Parkway, 
>> +Mountain...
>>
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>> On Aug 20, 2009, at 5:56 PM, Artem Sav wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I haven't found anything on google or in this group.
>>
>>> I am using limited local search to find businesses around particular
>>> coordinate.
>>> LocalSearch returns pretty good results in the GsearchResultClass
>>> structure - name of business, address, city, state and phone.
>>> Anything missing? Well, yes, the zip code. Why is it not included?
>>
>>> Same issue with Google Maps geocoder obviously - it doesn't include
>>> postal code if you do geocoding of an address, see xml data
>>> transmitted here for example:
>>> http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/examples/geocoding-sim 
>>> ...
>>
>>> It does make some degree of sense in case of Maps (zip being an
>>> artificial thing), but in case of Local Search it makes very little
>>> sense - these addresses come from yellow pages and as such do carry
>>> that info in the original data source.
>>
>>> I guess my question is if there is any web service API from Google
>>> which i could use to find postal code of an address/coordinate. I  
>>> can
>>> already do the reverse (just put the zip in the above geocoding
>>> example)
>>
>>


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