> In any case, I still don't see how a not very long street in a small town
> would be considered "more relevant" than the streets in the larger cities

Where does the geocoder say it is more relevant? I interpret the docs
as meaning 'further relevant results'

> (see 'Lakeshore Rd' above)

It would appear that there is a Lakeshore Rd W and a Lakeshore Rd E in
Mississauga.  I guess the geocoder thinks plain old 'Lakeshore Rd,
anytown' is a closer match to the supplied text.

> The only way I can get it to return actually relevant results is a
> hack: I append the city name to the end of the address string if it is not
> there already.

That makes sense to me.  Google's geocoder is at heart not a street-
finding gazetteer, it is an address-finding service.  The more your
search request looks like an address, the better it is likely to work.

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