On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 3:48 PM, warden [Andrew Leach - Maps API Guru]
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> On Oct 28, 3:16 pm, Mediakitchen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> I want to be sure that it only returns longitudes and latitudes for
>> the UK. For example, I do not want a search entry of "Wellington" to
>> return the latitude/longitude for Wellington in New Zealand.
>>
>> Any help much appreciated.
>
> You can try GClientGeocoder.setBaseCountryCode("uk")
> http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/reference.html#GClientGeocoder
>
> ...but even with that, there is no guarantee that "Wellington" will
> not find the New Zealand version first. So you could then
> use .getLocations() and cycle through the locations found until you
> get one in the UK
> (Placemark.AddressDetails.Country.CountryNameCode=="GB", I think;
> Placemark isn't documented very well).It's very well documented: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ciq/ciq.html#6 But as is sadly typical with a 'standard' its not very accessible. ;) (ie easy to use... - which I guess in some ways equates to not well) > If you don't get any UK > locations at all -- which you probably won't for Wellington -- then > add ",UK" to the end of the address string and try again. > > Andrew > > > -- Barry - www.nearby.org.uk - www.geograph.org.uk - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
