MikeS wrote: > 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.
http://www.geocodezip.com/example_geo2.asp?addr1=Nottingham,%20Nottinghamshire&addr2=Derby,%20Derbyshire&geocode=1&geocode=2 I don't see a problem with those examples. Perhaps you could provide examples that fail (and maybe even a link to your map...) > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
