The short_name results given from geocode for administrative_area_level_1 and 2 are incorrect for Spain and other countries when compared with the offical ISO 3166-2 values . For example, the result for any municipality in the state of Andalucia are:
administrative_area_level_2 is "Malaga" in both short_name and long_name results - the correct ISO-3166-2 code is "MA" administrative_area_level_1 is "AL" for short and "Andalusia" for long - the correct ISO-3166-2 code is "AN" These problems occur for most (but not all) cities in Spain - either the wrong code or no code at all are returned for one or both level-1 and level-2 results. The above error for Andalusia is important because the returned code "AL" belongs to another entity "ES-AL" is the province of Almeria, not the state of Andalusia. The problem is not restricted to Spain - I receive similar errors for Germany. Please note that it is only short_name which is incorrect. So: 1. Is Google using some other coding system than ISO-3166? 2. Is it possible for the data/results to be corrected? 3. Is there some other resource which returns correct results? I hope there is a solution to this issue because it makes the whole mapping API almost useless for many countires. RT -- 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 google-maps-js-api-v3@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-maps-js-api-v3+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en.
