"I want to identify the street, city, zip and country from the geocoder result and store them in my DB of course :) " i am not so sure but i think thats against the tos anyway ;) you have to geocode it in real time on the fly
On 8 Jun., 22:22, THE_AI <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Rossko, > thank you for the reply. > Maybe I'm just confused... > > On Jun 8, 8:46 pm, Rossko <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Now when I go over London, England I get really confusing results. > > > Instead of the city being London, the geocoder tells me that it is > > > either great london, lambeth or another boroughs of london. > > > > There is one area of 1-2 square km that is mapped to London, > > > everything else is not london for the geocoder. > > > That's postal addresses for you. The City of London is famously one > > square mile, right next door to the City of Westmisnster. All are > > within Greater London which has many other boroughs etc. etc. > > I'm reading the api docs and it says: > locality indicates an incorporated city or town political entity. > > So I moved my marker to Islington and the response from google > geocoder contains Islington as the locality. Greater London is set as > the administrative_area_level_2. > > Shouldn't the locality be London instead of Islington? > Islington is borough of London and not the city itself(locality)... > > I went to a city in Germany that I know very well and started to move > the marker around. When I was moving the marker to suburbs of the city > the locality returned from the google geocoder was still the name of > the city. > > > > So my question here is - am I supposed to look for the city/zip/street/ > > > country the way I do it or is there another way that will give me the > > > results I want? > > > Don't know what you want ; it isn't the postal address I guess ? > > I want to identify the street, city, zip and country from the geocoder > result and store them in my DB of course :) > > I don't understand this paragraph from the API doc: > "Generally, the more exact address is the most prominent result, as it > is in this case. Note that we return different types of addresses, > from the most specific street address to less specific political > entities such as neighborhoods, cities, counties, states, etc. If you > wish to match a more general address, you may wish to inspect the > results[].types field." > > Does this mean that I should get all results and browse trough them > and look if there is a result containing just a postal code, street, > locality and country? Or is it ok to just go with the first returned > result as it is the one that is most accurate??? -- 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.
