On Sep 21, 9:13 pm, Jake <[email protected]> wrote:
> #2. The geocoder making wild guesses instead of just saying it can't
> find anything or giving some type of low confidence level in the
> results returned.
>
> For example, when geocoding "College of the Albemarle," this is
> returned:
> University of Virginia Hospital, Virginia 22903, USA
If any body wants to know, I solved the "wild guess" problem by
removing all accuracy level 9 results:
Accuracy level 9 = Premise (building name, property name, shopping
center, etc.) level accuracy.
On Sep 18, 4:44 pm, Barry Hunter <[email protected]> wrote:
> metacarta have a API for this specific purpose :)
>
> http://ondemand.metacarta.com/?method=QueryParser
>
> (they even geocode the location for you. - you can use this along with
> the text query to run the search though the Local Google Search AJAX
> API :)
Re: the Metacarta query parser, their terms of use seem to indicate
that they only want you using their query parser in concert with their
other products. In other words, if you parse the query, you may only
search for the free-text portion using their search products. I'm no
lawyer, but that's what it looks like to me.
Part of their Terms of Use state:
You may store the Information for use in your applications, however if
you wish to use the Information in a user interface that includes free
text querying, you must use the JSON Search API and associated clients
to implement that part of your user interface. That is, you may not
practice Patent 7,117,199 without using the search functionality of
these Web Services.
That is, Your applications may not perform a joined query that uses
both a geographic domain identifier and a non-geographic query
constraint such as a free-text query string. If you wish to create
such an application, You may use the geographic search APIs and
Software Clients offered as part of these Web Services.
--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
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
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
