Re: [Google Maps API v3] Strange Geocoder result

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Andrew Leach

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Jul 31, 2011, 5:58:12 PM7/31/11
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On 31 July 2011 20:21, MymsMan <bobb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Why does API give different results from web UI?

It just does. The two are not the same: Google Maps incorporates the
Places API and can handles points of interest as well as addresses,
whereas the Maps API geocoder doesn't and only works on addresses.
That's why you get Buckingham Palace Road.

> Reverse Geocoding that location gives '96 Buckingham Palace Rd, Westminster,
> London SW1W 0, UK'

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