Thanks, Marcelo, but I didn't *think* I was particular asking about
business addresses.  Afterall, you can edit personal addresses too.
Or does Google consider all edited addresses as "business" addresses?

Still, I'd like to see some official word from Google about their
plans for the API and this capability in the future.

On Oct 9, 11:55 pm, marcelo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As it was said in that thread that the API's geocoder does not return
> business addresses, and that's still the case.
> You put in a street and number and you get a latitude/longitude, and
> the geocoder doesn't care if there is a McDonalds or a hole in the
> ground at that location.
> Business addresses are not handled by the geocoder.
>
> --
> Marcelo -http://maps.forum.nu
> --
>
> On Oct 9, 8:55 pm, "IBM.Doug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > It appears from this thread:
>
> >http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API/browse_thread/thread/a...
>
> > that the Geocoder API returns original addresses, not edited ones.
> > For an application we're considering, this could be pretty important.
> > i.e. it might be in some parties' interest to intentionally
> > misrepresent addresses, so we wouldn't want to use the edited
> > addresses.
>
> > What I'd like to know is if there is any documented intention of
> > whether this behavior will continue for the future, or if it will at
> > least become a controllable option.
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