You seem to have three dots "..." between the two lat/long pairs. Change to
two dots ".." then it should work.

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Jenn <[email protected]> wrote:

> I found in the help pages a quick blurb about using two lat/long
> points to make a bounding box for the location (as opposed to setting
> a geocode/address and radius) - it can be found here:
> http://code.google.com/apis/base/docs/2.0/attrs-queries.html#LocDatQuer
>
> I am using this with Google Maps so that is exactly what I want - only
> showing the items within the part of my map being displayed.
>
> However, I can't seem to get the query right - as I keep tweaking I
> either get no results or an error that says
>
> <errors>
> <error type="request" reason="Invalid query: illegal area
> specification; expected location"/>
> </errors>
>
> Here's my query:
>
> http://www.google.com/base/feeds/snippets/?bq=[item%20type:Housing][listing%20type:For%20Sale][location:%40%2B42.4648-083.6997...%40%2B42.56522-083.8051]
>
> I have tried many things - switching if the North East corner or the
> South West corner go first, switching lat and long order, taking off
> decimal point, etc. On the ones that I KNOW are incorrect I get a 0
> results returned. On the queries I think are correct according to the
> above documentation I get the error about illegal area specification.
>
> Any ideas?
>
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