Hi Chris, Posted this yesterday, don't know what happened but it disappeared.
Can we have a link to the problem record so that we can track the resolution ? For those of us who do not use the Places Autocomplete, what can you suggest ? I find it strange that when geocode requests are region biased to France, that the geocoder can still not find the correct result. Simon On Oct 12, 3:40 pm, Chris Broadfoot <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > To help mitigate problems like these I strongly recommend you use the Places > Autocomplete. It's a perfect fit for use cases like this. > > Here's a quick > demo:http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/pl... > > By typing "orange france" I get the correct result straight away. > > Nevertheless, I've filed this problem with the data team. > > Chris > > --http://twitter.com/broady > > > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 7:01 PM, sgiddings <[email protected]> wrote: > > Nice tip Pil. > > > However, this is not really an acceptable situation. > > Taking into account that work has been undertaken by Google to improve > > coverage in Europe, notably in France, this should not occur. > > Our users will not have the reflex to do this kind of manipulation - > > which will give a bad image to our sites, even if it is out of our > > control. > > > The user will not make the difference between our sites and Google, > > they only see our site. > > > Do we need to open a bug report ? > > Do we need to send a problem report to Thor Mitchell ? > > > On Oct 10, 3:54 pm, Pil <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Try > > > > Orange, Orange, fr > > > > (An old trick seems still working in this case.) > > > > On Oct 10, 11:07 am, Andy Newby <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > I'm using Geo-Coding to grab a lat/lng value for a place name entered, > > and > > > > then searching our external DB. However, it doesn't seem to wanna find > > a > > > > place called "Orange" in France, which I can find fine on the main > > site: > > > > >http://maps.google.com/maps?q=orange&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=44.128014,4.965. > > .. > > > > > Here is the place it gives an error: > > > > >http://www.chambresdhotes.org/cgi-bin/links/page.cgi?g=Google_Maps&t=. > > .. > > > > > I'm making sure I pass in lang=fr to force it to use french spellings > > > > (otherwise we have weird errors, like other place names not being > > found). > > > > > This issue also applies to GMaps v2 API (I havn't updated this page yet > > to > > > > the v3 one) - > >http://www.chambresdhotes.org/Google_Maps/?q=orange&radiusSelect=30&s... > > > > > Anyone got any suggestions? > > > > > TIA > > > > > Andy > > > -- > > 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. -- 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.
