On Dec 30, 3:05 pm, tjeerdkramer <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear reader, > > Is there anyone who can tell me how I can pinpoint exactly what the > city name of a http geocode result is? > > For example, when I run: > > http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=allston,us&output=xml&sensor=false&;... > > This results in the following placemark: > > <Placemark id="p1"> > <address>Allston, Massachusetts, USA</address> > - > <AddressDetails Accuracy="4"> > - > <Country> > <CountryNameCode>US</CountryNameCode> > <CountryName>USA</CountryName> > - > <AdministrativeArea> > <AdministrativeAreaName>MA</AdministrativeAreaName> > <AddressLine>Allston</AddressLine> > </AdministrativeArea> > </Country> > </AddressDetails> > - > <Point> > <coordinates>-71.1309800,42.3503400,0</coordinates> > </Point> > </Placemark> > > Right. <AddressLine> seems to be the city name. Next. > > http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=faro,es&output=xml&sensor=false&key... > > Result: > > <Placemark id="p1"> > <address>Faro, Portugal</address> > - > <AddressDetails Accuracy="4"> > - > <Country> > <CountryNameCode>PT</CountryNameCode> > <CountryName>Portugal</CountryName> > - > <SubAdministrativeArea> > <SubAdministrativeAreaName>Faro</SubAdministrativeAreaName> > - > <Locality> > <LocalityName>Faro</LocalityName> > </Locality> > </SubAdministrativeArea> > </Country> > </AddressDetails> > - > <Point> > <coordinates>-7.9351130,37.0153597,0</coordinates> > </Point> > </Placemark> > > Hmmm... Instead of <AddressLine>, the city is now in <LocalityName>. > Next: > > http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=nijmegen,nl&output=xml&sensor=false... > > Result: > > <AddressDetails Accuracy="4"> > - > <Country> > <CountryNameCode>NL</CountryNameCode> > <CountryName>The Netherlands</CountryName> > - > <AdministrativeArea> > <AdministrativeAreaName>Gelderland</AdministrativeAreaName> > - > <Locality> > <LocalityName>Nimègue</LocalityName> > </Locality> > </AdministrativeArea> > </Country> > </AddressDetails> > > Again, the city is listed in <LocalityName>. However, Nimègue is not > the actual city name in English, it should be Nijmegen, Nimègue is > French. bug. Strange thing is, when I input this: > > http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=nijmegen,nijmegen,nl&output=xml&sen... > > The result is > > <Placemark id="p1"> > <address>Nijmegen, Nimègue, The Netherlands</address> > - > <AddressDetails Accuracy="4"> > - > <Country> > <CountryNameCode>NL</CountryNameCode> > <CountryName>The Netherlands</CountryName> > - > <AdministrativeArea> > <AdministrativeAreaName>Gelderland</AdministrativeAreaName> > - > <Locality> > <LocalityName>Nimègue</LocalityName> > - > <DependentLocality> > <DependentLocalityName>Nijmegen</DependentLocalityName> > </DependentLocality> > </Locality> > </AdministrativeArea> > </Country> > </AddressDetails> > - > <Point> > <coordinates>5.8586510,51.8416922,0</coordinates> > </Point> > </Placemark> > > Right... Now we get the right name in <DependentLocalityName>. > However, both requests respond with an Accuracy of 4, where the 2nd > one is obviously more accurate. > > Then there are others... Sometimes the city is in > <AdministrativeArea>, sometimes in <SubAdministrativeArea>. Sometimes > the <SubAdministrativeArea> is a childnode of <AdministrativeArea>, > sometimes it is not, and then it is a direct childnode of <Country>. > > In other words, it's prety much impossible to grab the correct city > name for a list of input strings, unless I am missing something here. > > Please enlighten me?
You might be interested in this thread: http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API/browse_frm/thread/c6765ff744afd79e And this issue in the issue tracker: http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=606 -- Larry --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
