On Sep 17, 5:43 pm, Jeffrey Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > > is that more clear?
No, I think the first post was more clear. :-) If you want to make sure you are on the street, and not in the middle of a city block, try getting directions to somewhere. GDirections() will move the start marker onto the street, if needed. -- Marcelo - http://maps.forum.nu -- > > On Sep 17, 5:22 pm, Andrew Leach <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > 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 > > athttp://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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
