Hm, interesting. Is there any reliable way to tell what address I should be using? Obviously you were able to figure it out, so I'm curious what I should tell my users to do if they're seeing anomalous coordinates.
On Apr 1, 4:42 pm, Andrew Leach <[email protected]> wrote: > On Apr 1, 8:18 pm, Ralph <[email protected]> wrote: > > > It's completely possible that I'm doing something wrong, but I appear > > to be getting bad data from the geocoding web service. If I look up > > the location "1420 Munson Road Porter, IN 46304" via the Google Maps > > web page, it gives me a correct location. However, if I use the > > geocoding web service, I get a location in florida. If I'm doing > > something wrong, it's not obvious to me. I'd appreciate any help I can > > get. > > Google Maps is using the business listing to geocode that address. > It's not actually geocoding the address you give it, because it > doesn't know a "Munson Road". It (and the API) know that road as > "Indiana 49". Searching for "1420 Indiana 49" gets the right place. > > http://maps.google.com/maps/api/geocode/xml?address=1420+Indiana+49&s... -- 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.
