Thanks Chris, Adding the parameter region=au does the job!
Gerrit. On 13 feb, 00:44, Chris Broadfoot <c...@google.com> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 7:13 AM, Gerrit de Bolster <cbst...@home.nl> wrote: > > > I would like to have an answer from one of the Google employees as I > > believe that the Google Maps API is more than a mere street address > > geoder as you stated. > > Rossko is correct. Have a quick read of the documentation and you'll see > that it mentions "addresses" a > lot!http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/services.ht... > > Changing the region parameter may get you more relevant geocoder results. > For example, I get Canada as a result when I specify > region=au:http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=CA&sensor=fa... > > Rossko's suggestion of using your own lookup of ISO 3166-1 codes is an > excellent one, and if it's exactly what you need (only lookups of these > codes), then you should do that. The full list is published > here:http://www.iso.org/iso/english_country_names_and_code_elements > > Chris > > --http://twitter.com/broady -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. To post to this group, send email to google-maps-js-api-v3@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-maps-js-api-v3+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en.
