On Jan 4, 4:04 am, "warden [Andrew Leach - Maps API Guru]"
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jan 4, 9:57 am, Nelgin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Did I miss something or did Google mess up?
>
> (a) The geocoders use different data, so the results from the API
> geocoder will not necessarily be the same as maps.google.com.
> (b) Both geocoders do some elementary checking and could well decide
> that Beltline Road has North and South parts; or not, depending on
> their dataset.
> (c) maps.google.com will fall back to searching business data if it
> can't match address data, which is what seems to be happening with
> your Addison address. The API doesn't do that, it will return a 602
> error.
> (d) Never trust a geocoder.
> (e) It's free.
The solution was to use "Belt Line" rather than "Beltline" - I guess
it helps when people know how to spell the street name properly.
Thanks for the explanations anyway.
Regards
Nigel
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