Mike, Many thanks for the correction, Its been a long time since i lived in the UK and I did not know that it has changed. This explains my issue
Julian On Jan 22, 1:04 pm, Mike Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > The problem is that there is no longer a postcode "W1". > > "SW2" is a postcode region, and so is "W2" but the old W1 area got > merged with bits of the old W2 and W14 and then got split into "W1A", > "W1C", "W1F", etc. > > You can't geocode the "W1" part of "W1A" in the same way that you can't > geocode the "SW" part of "SW2". > > The same thing happens with "WC1", "WC2", "EC1", "EC2", "EC3" and "EC4" > they're not postcodes and the Google geocoder doesn't recognise them. > > If you can't persuade your users to input valid postcodes, then you'd > need to test for those seven special cases (I think that's a complete > list) and handle them yourself. > > -- > Mike Williams -- 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.
