Here's the code for anyone interested, geocoder is my global geocoding
object defined as:
var geocoder = new GClientGeocoder();
function findZipCode(address,callback) {
geocoder.getLocations(
address,
function(response) {
if (!response || response.Status.code != 200) {
callback("");
}
else {
var zip;
if (response.Placemark
[0].AddressDetails.Country.AdministrativeArea.Locality.PostalCode.PostalCodeNumber
== null)
zip = response.Placemark
[0].AddressDetails.Country.AdministrativeArea.SubAdministrativeArea.Locality.PostalCode.PostalCodeNumber;
else
zip = response.Placemark
[0].AddressDetails.Country.AdministrativeArea.Locality.PostalCode.PostalCodeNumber;
callback(zip);
}
}
)
}
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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