Thanx Rossoko. That explanation helps! I am posting your answer as a comment on the same post shared in the link in my mail to this group! This I believe will help all the readers reading the blog.
Thanks. -- *Shreerang Patwardhan* *Personal website:* Spatial Unlimited<http://shreerangpatwardhan.blogspot.com/> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 12:43 AM, Rossko <ros...@culzean.clara.co.uk> wrote: > The API geocoder is a postal address geocoder. Things like "brussels > (this is a nice place)" are not well-formed postal addresses, and the > geocoder struggles with them. You do have to look at all the results > returned, not just the first one. They may not be in the order you > expect. > > The geocoder at maps.google.com extends its search to business and > institution listings and so on. It's much more likely to come up with > matches against things like resteraunts in Brussels, BE, to help it > along. This is a convenience for the non-programmer user. > > If you want API behaviour to include non-postal addresses you need to > incorporate other services yourself, the programmer has the option. > For example, if you want results for things like city or province > names, the postal address geocoder is not really the right tool. Look > into Geonames or similar specialised services. > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
