Thanks Tom; thanks Celebird. I've tried a GB locale for makes which brought up the popular Ford, Vauxhall, Renault, Volkswagen and Peugeot; a foot in the right direction. Given that I want to capture the spectrum of popular UK cars/commercials, I suppose I might do as Tom wrote and manually enter my own <select> list. If I had the expertise, compiling a <select> list from the snippets feed as Celebird mentioned would be ideal, though I wouldn't know how to filter it such a big query down.
Also, I've seen that in the same example, the getModels() function too queries the attributes feed, which I now realise explains why no commercial vehicles come up when i.e. Mercedes is chosen as a make (from my own manual drop down list). From that, one would expect Vitos and Sprinters to come up. Re. 'educational purposes'; I meant in the sense that it didn't bring up a complete list of US car makers, rather, it shows what the feed does. Don't get me wrong, I think it's wonderful. Right, back to the drawing board for me. Thanks again, Matt On Apr 19, 9:46 am, Celebird <[email protected]> wrote: > first, yes the attributes feed accepts locales. > > however, if the locale is for the automasher-menu > then that's probably not where the code belongs -- > the query + code comes much later for the form. > > for the drop-down menu try near getMakeOptions: > attributesElement.setAttribute("src", > "http://www.google.com/base/feeds/attributes... > "&bq=[target country:GB]" + > that should get vauxhall and others if successful. > > i wouldn't consider the attributes feed in general > as something for "educational purposes" at all -- > i see the feed as collecting statistical information > and returning cogent useful results; e.g. a menu of > makes bounded by particular years or model features > with current relevancy and high-frequency across a > particular region. > > but the snippets feed could always be > used to generate a much larger list. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Base Data API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Base-data-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
