Thanks, I actually found out that UPS in their dev kit has an address validation tool, someone even wrote a PHP class to make it really easy to use, so that will probably be the best solution for this!
On Jun 20, 6:05 pm, Rossko <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am new to using the API, I don't have to make a map at this point, > > but I need a system that cross checks user address/city/state/zip code > > data against each other to make sure it is all valid. > > The Google geocoder is intended to provide a best-guess location for > an given address. > > Taking an example, if you feed it > '221b Baker St, London' > it might know exactly where that is - > or it might know where 200 & 300 are, and extrapolate an estimate - > or might only know where Baker Street is, and assume that is what > 'Baker St' meant - > or it may never heard of Baker St and tell you where London is. > > Those are all successful geocodes, but don't really validate your > address. The geocoder does return an 'accuracy' figure which is > intended to tell you how much faith to put in its guess ... however, a > low accuracy (or even complete failure to geocode) may mean limited > information on the geocoders side, not that there's anything wrong > with the address. > > The other problem you face is the terms of use, which for Google's > geocoder limit you to using the information for placing on a map. > > It's not the only geocoder - see > http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API/web/resources-non-goog... > but I'm not sure any of those would be any more useful for this > purpose. Your users know best what their own address is, I doubt any > automated system will serve much purpose here. > > cheers, Ross K --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
