The data will have been bought by Google from a third-party provider which will differ from one country to another. Chances are the postcode location is taken from a polygon centroid - i.e. an average position.
On Jul 25, 10:48 pm, Dave <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi group, > > I'm trying to use the API to calculate distances of certain things > from a certain suburb. We are allowing users to enter a postal code - > which is sent to the API and a latt/long is returned. > > What we need to know is how are these postal code 'locations' > determined? is it an average position of all addresses using that > postal code? or is it set specifically? > > Cheers, > Dave -- 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.
