On 19/06/2009, xtz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 19 juin, 16:16, Andrew Leach <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is a really good example of how not to use the geocoder -- and > > why you shouldn't use it this way. You *know* where the address you're > > asking for is. What you should be doing is getting the coordinates of > > that location out of your database as well as the address. Then you > > wouldn't need to use the geocoder: you just set the map to the > > location you know. Far faster and more efficient; and more accurate. > > > > However, I can get "122 West Street, po16 0, UK" to work. Or at least, > > it's in the right town. > > So that might suffice until the geocoder gets it wrong -- there have > > been instances of data updates making things worse rather than better. > > > > Andrew > > > Hi Andrew, > > Thanks for your quick answer. The problem is, I have a lot of > addresses that are entered by >20 people for >20 countries. > They are really a lot of them. This is the only one reported to be > wrong at the moment. I just checked the few in Switzerland, and these > seems to be correct. > I don't think it's a good idea to ask the users to enter their > resellers coordinates (Lat/Lng) as they will surely not understand the > process. > > Or maybe do you know a way to do it ?
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/articles/phpsqlgeocode.html > > They can just edit a list of names/addresses from the admin panel. > I could add Lat/Lng fields without any problem. > But it will be a lot of work (>700 addresses at the moment). > > Thanks. > > Philippe / xtz > > > > -- Barry - www.nearby.org.uk - www.geograph.org.uk - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
