Mike, that worked exactly as it should, don't know how to thank you! I'm really new at this and had NO idea that geocoding was less accurate. Gonna go do some research on that now.
On Jan 20, 1:06 am, Mike Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > You wrote > > >yeah, larry if you pop open any balloon, you will see the GPS > >coordinates are actually listed there- those are generated by our > >partners in the field in Africa, using a range of GPS devices- Garmin, > >Magellen, etc. So ideally, if you copy those, and paste them in the > >search bar, they should take you right back to that same balloon- > >however, they don't. they take you a few miles AWAY. Weird thing is in > >Google Earth, they take you to the exact right place- right to the > >marker. > > The values displayed in your infowindows are lat/lng pairs rather than > GPX coordinates. If that's always the case, you can just do this: > > function showAddress(address) { > var point = GLatLng.fromUrlValue(address); > map.setCenter(point, 10); > var marker = new GMarker(point); > map.addOverlay(marker); > marker.openInfoWindowHtml(address); > } > > It works in Google Earth because the Google Earth code guesses that > those numbers are lat/lng pairs and doesn't attempt to geocode them. > > Google's database for Ethiopia is a bit sparse. When you geocode a > location, you get one of the points in Google's database, which might be > a considerable distance away. > > -- > Mike Williams
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