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? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Base Data API" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > . > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-base-data-api%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-base-data-api?hl=en. > > -- http://www.NeibEx.com - Explore Your Neighborhood -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Base Data API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-base-data-api?hl=en.
