Not that it helps you solve the problem directly, but it's probably associated with their new data (see http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2009/10/map-data-updates-for-united-states.html ).
On Oct 6, 1:27 pm, Nathan <[email protected]> wrote: > Starting this morning the Google geocoder (using the REST interface > via GeoKit) has started returning different XML for "New York City" > queries. It is returning the state name but not the city name, or at > least not in the way that it used to and currently still does for > other cities. > > EXAMPLE RESPONSE for "New York, NY" > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> > <kml xmlns="http://earth.google.com/kml/2.0";><Response> > <name>new york, ny</name> > <Status> > <code>200</code> > <request>geocode</request> > </Status> > <Placemark id="p1"> > <address>New York, USA</address> > <AddressDetails Accuracy="4" > xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:ciq:xsdschema:xAL: > 2.0"><Country><CountryNameCode>US</CountryNameCode><CountryName>USA</ > CountryName><AdministrativeArea><AdministrativeAreaName>NY</ > AdministrativeAreaName><AddressLine>New York</AddressLine></ > AdministrativeArea></Country></AddressDetails> > <ExtendedData> > <LatLonBox north="40.8494506" south="40.5788125" > east="-73.7498541" west="-74.2620917" /> > </ExtendedData> > <Point><coordinates>-74.0059729,40.7142691,0</coordinates></Point> > </Placemark> > </Response></kml> > > EXAMPLE RESPONSE for "sf" > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> > <kml xmlns="http://earth.google.com/kml/2.0";><Response> > <name>sf</name> > <Status> > <code>200</code> > <request>geocode</request> > </Status> > <Placemark id="p1"> > <address>San Francisco, CA, USA</address> > <AddressDetails Accuracy="4" > xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:ciq:xsdschema:xAL: > 2.0"><Country><CountryNameCode>US</CountryNameCode><CountryName>USA</ > CountryName><AdministrativeArea><AdministrativeAreaName>CA</ > AdministrativeAreaName><SubAdministrativeArea><SubAdministrativeAreaName>Sa n > Francisco</SubAdministrativeAreaName><Locality><LocalityName>San > Francisco</LocalityName></Locality></SubAdministrativeArea></ > AdministrativeArea></Country></AddressDetails> > <ExtendedData> > <LatLonBox north="37.8454521" south="37.7043396" > east="-122.2913561" west="-122.5474749" /> > </ExtendedData> > <Point><coordinates>-122.4194155,37.7749295,0</coordinates></ > Point> > </Placemark> > </Response></kml> > > This change is causing GeoKit to not correctly capture the city name > for New York queries. Note that it DOES still work if you search by > street address in New York. Geocoding is being done from an Amazon EC2 > instance though my dev box on Speakeasy DSL is showing the same > results, so I don't think it is IP-specific. > > Does anyone know anything about this? > > Thanks, > Nathan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
