The directions service will return the nearest road address so you can ask
for directions from A to A and retrieve the starting location from the
direction result.
However if your location is in a pedestrian only area such as Venice the
nearest road may be a long way away!
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Ok guys, I obviously had not investigated far enough.
Thanks for these clarifications.
On Nov 17, 11:10 am, Rossko wrote:
> > The resulting lat/lng pair, when used to place a marker, puts it in
> > the empty space next to the road.
>
> It's not indicating empty space - have you looked at satellit
> The resulting lat/lng pair, when used to place a marker, puts it in
> the empty space next to the road.
It's not indicating empty space - have you looked at satellite
imagery? - the marker is on a building. The geocoding results have
location_type : "ROOFTOP"
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/do
