On Sep 22, 4:06 pm, Kilik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Funny...I had an address that had a forward slash in it e.g. "Foo / > Bar 123 Main Street, Anywhere, CA 11111" and got a gray screen in my > map view. > > I figured it was the forward slash. What else can cause this? >
Maybe you aren't initializing the map when the call to the geocoder fails. See Mike Williams' tutorial on handling errors in geocoder calls: http://econym.org.uk/gmap/Geo.htm If you posted a link to your map we might be able to tell you what is wrong without guessing... http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API/web/suggested-posting-guidelines > > On Sep 21, 7:30 pm, Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > The geocoder ignores punctuation. > > > GClientGeocoder takes care of any characters that might possibly need to > > be escaped, so, from Javascript you can write "19th & Broadway New > > York". > > > If you tried to do the same from the HTML geocoder interface, then you'd > > have to escape the & and the spaces, like this: > > http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=19th%20%26%20Broadway%20New%20York&ou > > tput=xml > > > --http://econym.org.uk/gmap > > The Blackpool Community Church Javascript Team- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps 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-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
