Hello,
I am sending a gLatLng to getLocations to do a reverse geocode. I am
getting 5 placemarks back, none of which have the same point as I gave
it!
Simplified code snippet:
point = new GLatLng('40.456800', '-74.721000')
this.geocoder.getLocations(point, function(response) {
thisC.geocodeHandler(point, response, thisC)
});
geocodeHandler: function(inAddress, response, thisC) {
place = response.Placemark[0];
outPoint = new GLatLng(place.Point.coordinates[1],
place.Point.coordinates[0]);
}
outPoint will not have the same latlong as I gave it! There are four
other returned placemarks with progressively worse results.
Ahhhaa!
I think I have it figured out now. It appears to be returning the
centroid of the closest cities (Hillsborough, Somerset), the state
(New Jersey) and the country (USA) in the result set. If you are also
close to a street, it will return the closest address range, probably
the middle of the street segment, not a centroid.
This is not explained in the API docs, so it is now explained here.
- Brad
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