Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Any suggestions on how
I might avoid
this behavior?

On Nov 17, 3:10 pm, Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 10 Nov 2008, there was a significant change to the geocoder and
> reverse geocoder. Before that, if you entered a string containing
> lat/lng coordinates it went through the geocoder. To use the reverse
> geocoder you had to pass a GLatLng().
>
> Since then, passing such a string calls the reverse geocoder.
>
> The reverse geocoder returns details of a nearby point which has an
> address. If the point is close to a street address, then that nearby
> point could be quite close. If the point is over a certain distance from
> a known street, then the centre of the nearest town is returned.
>
> Actually, it now returns a list of various geographical regions which
> contain the desired point, such as the suburb, school district, city,
> county, state, country and continent. If you're using .getLatLng() then
> you get the centre point of whichever of those comes first.
>
> --http://econym.org.uk/gmap
> The Blackpool Community Church Javascript Team
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