Hello Tom, Thanks for that. Yes, personally I would use more exact locations; however, I'm just doing some usability testing at the moment from an average user's perspective. I'm sure there are many random surfers out there who would input London as a location; after all, it's a big place. The concern is that if too big a radius is set capturing parts of Essex, Herts and Sussex, the user will think, "why are these locations coming up, I only typed in London?"
What would you recommend? I want to make the user experience as easy as possible. Should I just hard code a sensible radius and have done with it? Thanks, Matt On Apr 25, 12:19 am, Tom Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > Haven't kind of answered your own question here ? Your feeding in a > very general location and Google Base is providing results the best it > can based on the 5mi to 10 mi range showing results it points to > Google Base not being able to find anything in such a short raduis. > > Why aren;t you using more exact locations ? > > On Apr 24, 11:06 pm, zweb <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > HI, > > > Thanks for the responding. It's for the vehicle item-type. The exact > > query is as follows (sorry, it's encoded): > > >http://www.google.com/base/feeds/snippets/-/vehicles?bq=%5Blocation%3...[make:Mercedes-benz][model:Sprinter]%5Btarget+country%3A+GB%5D&max-results= > > 10 > > > which is the same as: > > > This query: Items matching query: ([location:@"london"+5mi] > > [make:Mercedes-benz][model:Sprinter][target country: GB]) [item type > > == "vehicles"] > > > The above queries, which are the same, returned no results. When +5 is > > increased to +10, it starts to return data. One of returned listings > > feature 'Greater London' within the location attribute. So why would > > that listing not be returned when merely querying 'London'? > > > Thanks for your time. > > > Regards, > > > Matt > > > On Apr 24, 7:57 pm, Celebird <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > for what item-type? what's the exact query? > > > > i believe london would only match that specific > > > attribute value or corresponding geocode if > > > someone submitted that exact information -- > > > someone selling the victoria embankment. > > > > within google-base that's not a > > > city-wide search as far as i know.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
