On Aug 9, 2:05 pm, Sawtooth500 <[email protected]> wrote:
> No! That's still not it! I don't know how else to explain it. Street
> view is a series of panoramic images taken along a road at a given
> interval. Run an address through the geocoder, you get a lat/long, the
> systems pairs the nearest SV image to that lat/long.
>
> Yes, I get it that addresses are approximate, and the address may not
> correlate to the exact lat/long of where that address physically is.
> But this has nothing to do with that.
>
> This has to do with that multiple different addresses put through the
> geocoder should produce multiple different lat/long pairs, and those
> pairs will have different closest SV images. But instead of displaying
> that closest SV image it keeps displaying only this one SV image.
>
> Please, this problem has nothing to do with the fact that addresses
> are approximate.

As far as I can tell the rooftop geocode for 120 North Illinois St,
South Bend, IN should be: 41.6759,-86.3007

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=41.67590094684698,-86.30070805549621&sll=41.675947,-86.300955&sspn=0.001014,0.001609&g=120+North+Illinois+St,+South+Bend,+IN&ie=UTF8&ll=41.675915,-86.300673&spn=0.001014,0.001609&t=h&z=19

The geocoder returns:
http://www.geocodezip.com/example_geo2.asp?addr1=120%20North%20Illinois%20St,%20South%20Bend,%20IN&geocode=1

Found 1 results
[ 0 ]: 120 S Illinois St, South Bend, IN 46619, USA (41.675222,
-86.300927)

Which is 246 ft down the road.
http://www.geocodezip.com/example_geo2.asp?addr1=120%20North%20Illinois%20St,%20South%20Bend,%20IN&geocode=1&addr2=(41.6759,-86.3007)&geocode=2

I don't know that there is anything you can do about this other than
storing the real coordinates in your database, rather than using the
geocoder to find them.

  -- Larry


>
> On Aug 9, 2:51 pm, Rossko <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > So the basis of complaint is that the geocoder is not accurate.  Yes,
> > that is true ; see the small print in the Streetview at
>
> >http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=120+North...
> > "Address is approximate"
>
> > See also the documentation
> >  http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/services.html#Panorama...
> > "the Street View service does not require (and generally does not
> > receive) exact latitudes and longitudes in these cases, but rather
> > searches for the existence of panorama data "near" a given GLatLng."
> > 'near' is not the same as 'nearest', have you tried using
> > getNearestPanorama() it may just come up different?
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