On Feb 10, 4:15 pm, Big Alex <[email protected]> wrote:
> Geocoding while adding zip codes to the query sometimes leads to
> results that look a bit strange. Take the following example:
>
> "79761 Waldshut-Tiengen, Deutschland" takes you to
>
> http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=de&geocode=&q=79761+Wal...
>
> that is somwhere in the middle of nowhere near the right town, but
> definitely not the centre of that town (that is what a user would like
> to address with this query).
Gives me:
[ 0 ]: 79761 Waldshut-Tiengen, Germany (47.6533265, 8.2721269)
Which seems to be where the geocoder thinks that postal code number
is:
"Accuracy": 5,
"PostalCode": {"PostalCodeNumber": "79761"}
Accuracy 5 is "Post code (zip code) level accuracy."
>
> "Waldshut-Tiengen, Deutschland" takes you to the right spot
>
> http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=de&geocode=&q=Waldshut-...
and returns:
[ 0 ]: Waldshut-Tiengen, Germany (47.623686, 8.214255)
"Accuracy": 4,
(no postal code number)
Accuracy 4 is "Town (city, village) level accuracy."
-- Larry
>
> One could say now, hey, just omit the zip! But that is generally not a
> good idea, as a lot of towns have similar names in good old germany
> and you will definitely get the wrong one. There are for instance 57
> (!) Towns by the name of "Hausen" wich is something like "Springfield"
> in the US without the connotation of beeing a jolly town with funny
> people.
>
> So what I do now ist to query first the town with zip, than make a
> proximity search without zip to get to the center of the town that I
> would like to find.
>
> Q: Does anyone know of a simple way that I could get the centre of the
> town that I look for while still adding the zip to be sure that i get
> the town that I mean?
--
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.
