Searching for Places

[theKiwi]

1 - What criteria is Reunion using when searching for a place?

For example I have

Coldingham, Berwickshire, Scotland

as a place. When I click "Geo Code" it puts the pin about in the middle of Scotland, since all that was returned is "Scotland". The problem is the "Berwickshire" part of it - if I remove that then Coldingham, Scotland is found right away by Reunion.

But if I use http://maps.google.com/ and search for the same string it is found right on the town of Coldingham. So it would seem that the search isn't being done the same way from within Reunion as it is when using maps.google.com ?

2 - can the place that is being searched for be "editable" in the geocode window so that I can alter the string being passed to Google maps to search for - eg

if Coldingham, Berwickshire, Scotland doesn't work, while still with the map showing, let me change the search string to say "Coldingham, Scotland" and have that found, then save that location back to the full place name.

Thanks

Improvements R Us Roger :-)

[Mark]

Re: Searching for Places

1 - What criteria is Reunion using when searching for a place?

Reunion sends the Place string, as entered, to the Google Geocoding API.

But if I use http://maps.google.com/ and search for the same string it is found right on the town of Coldingham.

When I search for that string in Google Maps, I get a list of businesses located in Coldingham as results - not a location. Is this what you're seeing?

Since we're using the Geocoding API businesses are not included in the results we get back from Google.

2 - can the place that is being searched for be "editable" in the geocode window so that I can alter the string being passed to Google maps to search for

The place isn't currently editable, though 10.0.2 did add the ability to move the pin in the map to a different spot and retrieve the geocode for that location.

[theKiwi]

Re: Searching for Places

When I search for that string in Google Maps, I get a list of businesses located in Coldingham as results - not a location. Is this what you're seeing?

Since we're using the Geocoding API businesses are not included in the results we get back from Google.

Yes, I do get the list of businesses, but at least the pin(s) are close to where I want it to be. Having looked again at how TNG is working it too sets the same spot in Scotland now. I think this has changed with the Google Maps API v3 perhaps, as it didn't used to be like that.

The place isn't currently editable, though 10.0.2 did add the ability to move the pin in the map to a different spot and retrieve the geocode for that location.

Yes, that is a huge improvement, although dragging the pin clear across Scotland is a chore <g>.

The interface I developed for TNG that did this set the pin location by a click, rather than a drag, so you didn't need to be able to see the pin (if it got put down clear in the wrong place) to be able to set it to a new location - just click where you wanted it to be.

But if 10.0.3 would allow the search string to be edited, in the example I'm using removing the Berwickshire lets Google find the exact town I'm after.

Roger