On Wednesday, July 24, 2013 10:11:43 AM UTC-7, Carlos Correia wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I've been experimenting with Component > Filtering<https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/index#ComponentFiltering>and > I noticed a weird behaviour: geocoding an address with component > filtering will give me a better result than without filters. The specific > case I found was the address *Avenida de Almirante Reis, 61 C/V.D, Lisboa*, > while using the filter *components=country:PT*. > > Without component > filtering<http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=Avenida%20de%20Almirante%20Reis,%2061%20C/V.D,%20Lisboa&sensor=false>I > get a location_type > APPROXIMATE, while with the > filter<http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=Avenida%20de%20Almirante%20Reis,%2061%20C/V.D,%20Lisboa&components=country:PT&sensor=false>I > get a location_type > ROOFTOP. >
Are the locations the same (but just a different location_type)? The geocoding service in the javascript API gives me location_type ROOFTOP without the component filtering: http://www.geocodezip.com/v3_example_geo2.asp?addr1=Avenida%20de%20Almirante%20Reis,%2061%20C/V.D,%20Lisboa&geocode=1 -- Larry > (I thought of leaving pastebins with the answers the service gave me, but > I do not know if that would be a violation of the ToS) > > Now, I could be wrong, but are filters not supposed to *reduce* the > answer set? > > I'm not really interested on changing this behaviour, just on * > understanding* it. > > Thanks in advance. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-maps-js-api-v3+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-maps-js-api-v3@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
