Empirically, I've discovered that this happens frequently, it's by design, and you can't change it.
Compare the results from brick lane which will be equivalent to brick lane uk if google thinks (from your ip address) that you're in the UK, and brick lane us if google thinks that you're in the USA. Google will never return more than 10 results, as there might well be thousands of brick lanes worldwide. You also need to be aware of this: When you sumbit a geocode api query, say 'sousse tunisia', you'll get 3 results. In googlemaps, you'll only get 1, at least here in Switzerland I only get one. On occasions, 2 (or more) of the results will have identical formatted_address so you can't use that field to disambiguate, your only option is to use the lat/long. In this example, your 3 formatted_addresses might be (I'm making this up for lack of real data here at work): Sousse, Tunisia Sousse, Medina, Tunisia Sousse, Tunisia each with its own lat/long. HTH, Maurice On Oct 11, 12:08 pm, Benv <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello > > In the UK, there are at least two towns with the name "Ludgershall". > One in Buckinghamshire and one in Wiltshire. > > If you search Google maps for "Ludgershall" it centres the map on the > Buckinghamshire one, but doesn't give a "did you mean" choice in the > left hand panel for the other one. But if you search for "Ludgershall, > Wiltshire" it centers on the Wiltshire one. > > They are both small towns, so no reason to assume the majority of > users would want one or the other. > > I use Google Maps on my website, and I allow users to search using it. > If there are mulitple results it displays a did you mean list, if > there is just one result it takes you straight to that town. This is > obviously not working correctly when people search for Ludgershall, > wanting the Wiltshire town. > > Is there a parameter in V3 to fix this? Could I have every town and > street name in the World with the name Ludgershall in it returned, and > is it possible to set a threshold for how relevant the results are? > > Thank you for your time. > > Ben -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" 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-js-api-v3?hl=en.
