On Oct 22, 3:02 pm, wb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm building a web page for a user to submit his address and distance
> he's willing to travel, and the page will return a list of all the
> restaurants that we represent within that specified distance radius.
> These restaurants' locations are plotted on a Google map. Depending on
> the user's input, that list can be 40 to 50 restaurants, and we
> provide this service to both North America and Europe.
>
> Now the problem I have is that there are always some addresses that
> the GClientGeocoder can't locate. Even when I submit the same address
> and distance and the same list of restaurants are returned, the
> addresses that can't be found are not consistent. One time the
> Geocoder can't locate the address of restaurants 1, 2 & 3, while
> another time restaurants 3, 4, 5 couldn't be located. And when I
> tested those individual addresses on maps.google.com, none of them has
> problem.

Are you checking the error code?

>
> Is this problem cause by our submitting too many addresses to the
> Geocoder in one go? How can this be resolved?

Geocode the restaurants offline, and store the coordinates so you
don't have to re-geocode them for each visitor.
(assuming they don't move)

See this page from Mike Williams' tutorial for more info:
http://econym.org.uk/gmap/geomulti.htm

  -- Larry


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