Can i get the router On Jan 10, 2017 3:35 AM, "JKurtock" <jkurt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just geocode the address you receive, then compute the distance between > what you provided and what you got back. Decide on a threshold (based on > the source of your lat-lng in the first place) for what reverse geocoding > you will accept. > > Reverse geocoding generally returns the lat-lng of the top of the house. > If you are using a lat-lng from, for instance, routing data, the lat-lng > you have may be the street in front of the house, which could easily be 100 > meters away. > > Arbitrarily returning "zero results" when the submitted lat-lng is over > water wouldn't be a very good design. If your user is "picking" a location > from a map, it would be very easy for the user to "miss" the exact top of a > sea-side home and click a location a few meters off the beach. > > - Jeff > > On Sunday, January 8, 2017 at 4:35:57 PM UTC-8, Xin Zhang wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> In my project, I'm using Google Geocoding and Reverse Geocoding APIs to >> validate the addresses and latlngs provided by end users. >> >> >> Given latlng -37.857866,144.950706, the Reverse Geocoding API ( >> https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?latlng=-3 >> 7.857866,144.950706) returns the nearest land address. >> >> However on Google Map web page, that latlng actually is in the sea: >> https://www.google.com.au/maps/search/-37.857866,144.950706 >> >> >> Is there anyway that I can tell Google Reverse Geocoding API to not >> return me the nearest land address? In real project, actually I provide the >> API key and specify location types, e.g. https://maps.googleapis.c >> om/maps/api/geocode/json?key=&location_type=ROOFTOP|RANGE_IN >> TERPOLATED|GEOMETRIC_CENTER&latlng=-37.857866,144.950706 and I'm just >> thinking if the place specified by the latlng is not address as specified, >> Google should return me ZERO_RESULTS. >> >> >> Thanks and regards, >> >> Eric >> > -- > 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 https://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
