[Google Maps API v3] Re: Won't find the town Orange in France?

2011-10-14 Thread sgiddings
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

[Google Maps API v3] Re: Won't find the town Orange in France?

2011-10-14 Thread sgiddings
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,

Re: [Google Maps API v3] Re: Won't find the town Orange in France?

2011-10-12 Thread Chris Broadfoot
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/places-autocomplete.html By typing orange france I get the

[Google Maps API v3] Re: Won't find the town Orange in France?

2011-10-11 Thread sgiddings
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

[Google Maps API v3] Re: Won't find the town Orange in France?

2011-10-10 Thread Pil
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