On Aug 26, 4:25 am, Nathan <[email protected]> wrote: > > As for the address, "2-60 O'brien Road Smithfield" doesn't seem to > fare much better...
The geocoder needs addresses. "2-60 O'brien Road Smithfield" is an address; "Smithfield State High School, Smithfield" is not -- although the postal service may know where that is, they have to travel to O'brien Road to deliver the mail. *Addresses* have streets in them; otherwise they become a business search, which the geocoder isn't designed for. Addresses shouldn't have hyphens in them. That makes geocoding very difficult, and again geocoders don't work that way. The geocoder knows points along the road (say one intersection, which might be where no.2 would be) and the next intersection (perhaps where no.60 would be). It then needs to make an assumption, and spaces the unknown points equidistantly between the known ones. [The known points may be closer together than just at intersections, particularly where there are large gaps between properties] So http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=40+O%27brien+Road+Smithfield+QLD+Australia does return something useful. Substitute a different number you want the marker placed differently, on the main entrance, say. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
