Hey Adrian, If you would like to save coordinates of a contact my advice would be to save the coordinates in the formattedAddress field of a gd:structuredPostalAddress and to use the format "lat,lon" (in decimal) for example "50,0" You could set the @rel attribute to "http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#other " and the @label to "Coordinates" to differentiate this address from regular address.
By doing ti this way you would benefits from clients that already have an integration with Google maps. For example Android phones have a cool feature, when you click on an address of a contact this opens Google maps and searches for the contact. This is the equivalent to using: http://maps.google.com?q=formattedAddress So if you save "lat,lon" in the formattedAddress field you would benefit from this integration because http://maps.google.com?q=50,0 for example actually points to coordinates latitude=50 longitude=0 automatically. Cheers Nicolas On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Adrian Cuthbert <[email protected]>wrote: > More specifically I like being able to select a location on Google Maps > from my contacts. Better still I can update my contacts from elsewhere, have > them sync onto my phone and be available from Google Maps. > > As far as I can tell a structured address is a component available in all > contacts and Google Maps geocodes the address (if present) to work out what > map to display. But there are some things that either don't geocode > correctly or can't be properly described using a postal address. Is there > anyway to capture these in a contact and use it to drive Google Maps to the > correct coordinates. > > Any help/thoughts would be greatly appreciated, > > Adrian > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Google Contacts, Shared Contacts and User Profiles APIs" 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://code.google.com/apis/contacts/community/forum.html > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Contacts, Shared Contacts and User Profiles APIs" 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://code.google.com/apis/contacts/community/forum.html
