I have a question...... I have built a system that works perfectly when the getlocations() works, however I have been getting a number of complaints from users of failed searches. After some investigation into this I have come up with the following,
1: When attempting to geocode a full postal address, as entered by the user, the getlocations() search does not like it when the city and county are the same, as in "Derby, Derbyshire" or "Nottingham, Nottinghamshire" or "Oxford, Oxfordshire". To overcome this I am filtering out the county from the search address and it works perfectly. 2: When attempting to search on the full address and the search code does not appear to have the street level address in the database it just fails, rather than stepping up a level to the locality (area/town etc) Which is a real pain as it means I have have to do the step up myself which in turn means 2 calls to the getlocations() code...... 1: What is the problem with having a city/locality the same as the county? 2 Why does the search engine code not do the step back in the address itself rather than me having to (frequently it seems) do a second call to the search engine which then works, thus increasing the calls to the engine? Currently I am now having to filter out both the county AND street levels in the passed address to prevent the search failing and my system making multiple calls for what are the same addresses to overcome this! Doing this however comes at a cost, resulting in wildly inaccurate maker locations (up to a mile depending on the locality!) for what were normally very accurate (to within 20m) when it found the address, simply because of the logic fault in the search engine to take a fallback position itself when a street level search fails........ I am going about this incorrectly, have I missed something? ...... I am not posting a link as the system is in a registered users area and this is not a coding problem on my part , but from my understanding, a logic flaw in the getlocations() search engine code. Can someone enlighten me please...... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps 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-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
