On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 7:13 AM, Gerrit de Bolster <[email protected]> wrote:

> I would like to have an answer from one of the Google employees as I
> believe that the Google Maps API is more than a mere street address
> geoder as you stated.
>

Rossko is correct. Have a quick read of the documentation and you'll see
that it mentions "addresses" a lot!
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/services.html#Geocoding

Changing the region parameter may get you more relevant geocoder results.
For example, I get Canada as a result when I specify region=au:
http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=CA&sensor=false&region=au

Rossko's suggestion of using your own lookup of ISO 3166-1 codes is an
excellent one, and if it's exactly what you need (only lookups of these
codes), then you should do that. The full list is published here:
http://www.iso.org/iso/english_country_names_and_code_elements

Chris

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