Ok, I think we've moved away from the point I was trying to make. Thanks for your time anyway, guys.
On Aug 26, 4:29 pm, Andrew Leach <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] > > Sohttp://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=40+O%27brien+Road+Smithfield+QLD+Au... > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
