On May 1, 5:31 am, BliXem Erik <[email protected]> wrote:
> When I use geocoder to find the location of 'Lent, The Netherlands' it
> returns the coordinates of 'Lent, Medemblik, The Netherlands'. Lent is
> a street in Medemblik, but also a town near Nijmegen. This happens
> with a lot of town names.
>
> How can I tell the geocoder to return the coordinates of the town and
> not of the street (address)? I don't have an address I'd like to find
> in the town, just the center.


Lent, Nederlands seems like it might be the right place (I don't know
the Netherlands all that well).

http://www.geocodezip.com/example_geo2.asp?addr1=Lent,%20Nederlands&geocode=1

Why that is different from "Lent, The Netherlands" and "Lent, NL", I
don't know.  The geocoder is returning one point with accuracy 9:
"address": "Kerkvoogdij Nederlands Hervormde Kerk, Pastoor van
Laakstraat 30, 6663 Nijmegen, The Netherlands"

Reverse geocoding those coordinates gives:
[ 7 ]: Lent, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (51.8633351, 5.8651633)
as the 8th result

"address": "Lent, Nijmegen, The Netherlands"
"Accuracy": 4

  -- Larry
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