Well thanks a lot for the reply..Again what i need to do is to show the whole JSON object returned by google...how is it possible?.
Thanks again, Roshan On Apr 30, 5:36 pm, Mike Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > You can test for roads and "addresses", but, at the moment, not for > anything else. > > At one point the reverse geocoder would return information about parks > and other features that are shown on the streetmaps. Basically, if the > feature appears as a green, blue, pink or grey region on the streetmap > tiles, then it would be listed in the reverse geocoder replies. That no > longer happens. > > To test if the point is close to a road, use GDirections to find the > route from the point to itself. This will snap to the nearest known > road. Read back the location that it snapped to, and find the > .distanceFrom() the original point. Unfortunately, there's nothing that > tells you how wide the road is. > > To test if the point is at an "address" use the reverse geocoder and see > if there's a Placemark with an Accuracy of 8 or higher. If so, parse the > result.address to see if there's a single property number[1]. That's not > going to tell you if you've actually hit a house, you could be in the > garden of the house, or the property could be a school or office or > shopping mall. > > [1] I think that might be a recent change in the reverse geocoder > behaviour. Previously it always seemed to return accuracy 6 or less if > the point was close to an interstate or rural road with no addressable > properties nearby, but now it sometimes returns things like > accuracy = 8 > address = 8960-8998 N Shoal Creek Pkwy > If you get a single property number, then it's an "address". If you get > two numbers separated by a hyphen, then it isn't. > > --http://econym.org.uk/gmap > The Blackpool Community Church Javascript Team --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
