On Sep 17, 4:09 pm, Prague <[email protected]> wrote: > > 1. can we easily pick out the street / city / country from the address > and use only those to avoid any possible weird numbers which might be > included there?
Yes. Have a look at http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q="555-main-street-chicago-il-usa"; That may not answer the question, it's not exactly clear what you're attempting to do. If you have only certain panoramas, you already know where they are, so you should have server-side database which would locate the right one based on a friendly url which you also know. There shouldn't be any requirement to use a geocoder for this. > 2. on this demo > pagehttp://gmaps-samples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/geocoder/reverse.html > i see that the reverse geocoding works great in the USA. but if you go > to e.g. Prague, you get some nasty results - clicking on the streets > gives you a nice street address but clicking (just a few pixels over) > on a house gives you a "postal address" which is the name of the > neighborhood + "postal number" - no street name or street number. this > is far less ideal. I'm guessing there's no way to avoid this except by > placing the map pin directly onto the street and avoiding houses? What you could do is use the GDirections service to force a location on a street. Get directions from your click location back to itself and use the location of the start (or end!) as the revised click point. However, you should use the geographic coordinates to select the panorama; you shouldn't reverse geocode to a street name in order that you can generate a friendly URL from it. The methods you use should avoid the use of Google services as far as possible, not only so that you don't deny resources to those who genuinely need them, but also because (especially in my second example, which uses two asynchronous calls) it's usually faster not to use them. Andrew --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
