On Apr 12, 5:50 pm, cbmeeks <[email protected]> wrote: > OK, maybe not weird but curious. > > When I geocode addresses, I get some results that are odd to me. For > example, when I look up "Paris", I get one result. Paris France. > Fine. However, there is a Paris, KY USA too. Obviously not a > sprawling city (lol) but still, it's a city named Paris. > > Now, there is another little town near where I live called "Dunlap". > I search for Dunlap and I get NINE results. All from different > states. Cool I think. But why give so many more choices for such a > small town and only one for a large one?
Because the little towns all have the same weight with the geocoder. "Paris" is always going to choose a capital city over a provincial town, as the capital city has much more weight than the Kentucky version. You might think of stars: you can see many stars which are all much of a muchness in a dark sky. Put the moon in the sky and you can see that with only the brightest stars; put the sun there as well and you can't see anything else. > Plus, here is another one. I can search for "Disney World" and sure > enough, one result near Orlando as I would expect. But searching for > "SeaWorld" give me this: > > Any ideas on the results? I could see my users typing in either of > those for SeaWorld. The geocoder is an address geocoder, not a business geocoder (that's Local Search). There aren't many addresses which contain the word "Disney", what with it being a registered trademark, so it's probably found its way into the geocoder's address data. "Sea" on the other hand features in many addresses; and the geocoder doesn't geocode business names. PS: The Version 3 Group is at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3/ but I don't think the geocoder is any different as it's a server-side process which I believe is shared between the two APIs. -- 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.
