Thanks Mike. I'll add the country code to all our Geocode queries.
On Aug 20, 11:29 am, Mike Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
> Maps.google.com supports full UK postcodes, so it finds the point in
> Essex.
>
> The API geocoder doesn't, and it just so happens that it considers "EX8
> Suzhou" to be a better match than "EX8 Devon". The ccTLD only adds a
> slight bias to the ranking of possible results. If you want to force a
> particular country, then you need to add the country code to the query.
>
> [Note: it is now safe to specify the country code more than once in the
> query, so you can just add " UK" to the end of whatever your user has
> entered without checking to see if they've already specified the
> country.]
>
> --
> Mike Williamshttp://econym.org.uk/gmap
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