Heads up, its me again...
I've done some further testing :
For a geocode request like this -
var Geocoder = new google.maps.Geocoder();
GeoCoder.geocode( {'address' : "Orange, France", 'region' : "FR"},
ProcessGeoCode);
I get the following result list :
France Service Rd, Bay Lake, Floride, États-Unis
Consulate General of France, 7657 Mt Carmel Dr, Orlando, Floride
32835-8164, États-Unis
France Pavilion, France Service Rd, Bay Lake, Floride 32836, États-
Unis
Something is seriously wrong here !
Simon
On Oct 14, 9:06 am, sgiddings <mr.s.giddi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> Posted this yesterday, don't know what happened but it disappeared.
>
> Can we have a link to the problem record so that we can track the
> resolution ?
>
> For those of us who do not use the Places Autocomplete, what can you
> suggest ?
> I find it strange that when geocode requests are region biased to
> France, that the geocoder can still not find the correct result.
>
> Simon
>
> On Oct 12, 3:40 pm, Chris Broadfoot <c...@google.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Hi all,
>
> > To help mitigate problems like these I strongly recommend you use the Places
> > Autocomplete. It's a perfect fit for use cases like this.
>
> > Here's a quick
> > demo:http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/pl...
>
> > By typing "orange france" I get the correct result straight away.
>
> > Nevertheless, I've filed this problem with the data team.
>
> > Chris
>
> > --http://twitter.com/broady
>
> > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 7:01 PM, sgiddings <mr.s.giddi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Nice tip Pil.
>
> > > However, this is not really an acceptable situation.
> > > Taking into account that work has been undertaken by Google to improve
> > > coverage in Europe, notably in France, this should not occur.
> > > Our users will not have the reflex to do this kind of manipulation -
> > > which will give a bad image to our sites, even if it is out of our
> > > control.
>
> > > The user will not make the difference between our sites and Google,
> > > they only see our site.
>
> > > Do we need to open a bug report ?
> > > Do we need to send a problem report to Thor Mitchell ?
>
> > > On Oct 10, 3:54 pm, Pil <wolf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Try
>
> > > > Orange, Orange, fr
>
> > > > (An old trick seems still working in this case.)
>
> > > > On Oct 10, 11:07 am, Andy Newby <andy.ne...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > Hi,
>
> > > > > I'm using Geo-Coding to grab a lat/lng value for a place name entered,
> > > and
> > > > > then searching our external DB. However, it doesn't seem to wanna find
> > > a
> > > > > place called "Orange" in France, which I can find fine on the main
> > > site:
>
> > > > >http://maps.google.com/maps?q=orange&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=44.128014,4.965.
> > > ..
>
> > > > > Here is the place it gives an error:
>
> > > > >http://www.chambresdhotes.org/cgi-bin/links/page.cgi?g=Google_Maps&t=.
> > > ..
>
> > > > > I'm making sure I pass in lang=fr to force it to use french spellings
> > > > > (otherwise we have weird errors, like other place names not being
> > > found).
>
> > > > > This issue also applies to GMaps v2 API (I havn't updated this page
> > > > > yet
> > > to
> > > > > the v3 one) -
> > >http://www.chambresdhotes.org/Google_Maps/?q=orange&radiusSelect=30&s...
>
> > > > > Anyone got any suggestions?
>
> > > > > TIA
>
> > > > > Andy
>
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