On Jul 1, 6:01 am, Joy <[email protected]> wrote: > > Do you recommend passing the Country Names instead of the Standard ISO > two letter Country Code in the request? > I saw that geocodinghttp://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=Mall,ES&output=xml > (with country code of Spain) yields two addresses for Italy > But when I change the Country Code (ES) to Country Name (Spain) the > same request returns results from > Spain.http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=Mall,Spain&output=xml
You are pushing the geocoder to the limit of its capabilities with a single word of an address and a two-letter country code. Any help you can give it is beneficial: if using country names rather than codes helps, use names. I repeat: the geocoder is intended to geocode addresses, not single words. > Is there some other parameter in the Request (other than the "q" one) > which dedicatedly expects a Country Input only (either standard Codes > or Names)? > Or any standard that Google follows to identify the Country from the > address specified in the Geocoding Request? I don't believe so. Google favours heuristic analysis for searching, and I guess that's what they're using here. Your results so far suggest that. Andrew --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
