Won't find the town "Orange" in France?

[Andy Newby]

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=44.128014,4.96582&spn=0.414988,1.344452&sll=44.142305,4.805832&sspn=0.09781,0.336113&vpsrc=6&hnear=Orange,+Vaucluse,+Provence-Alpes-C%C3%B4te+d%27Azur,+France&t=h&z=10

Here is the place it gives an error:

http://www.chambresdhotes.org/cgi-bin/links/page.cgi?g=Google_Maps&t=espanol&q=Orange&radiusSelect=30

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&submit=Recherche

Anyone got any suggestions?

TIA

Andy

[Andrew Leach]

On 10 October 2011 10:07, Andy Newby <andy....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Here is the place it gives an error:
>
> http://www.chambresdhotes.org/cgi-bin/links/page.cgi?g=Google_Maps&t=espanol&q=Orange&radiusSelect=30
>

I get an error with google.ads in both your urls. However, it does
look like the API geocoder can't locate Orange, France, although the
last attempt here gets nearest:

http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/xml?address=orange,france&sensor=false
http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/xml?address=orange,provence&sensor=false
http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/xml?address=orange,vaucluse&sensor=false

Even adding bounds specifying France doesn't help:

http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/xml?address=orange,france&sensor=false&bounds=42.1331639,-5.9820520|50.0380022,10.4095500

The API geocoder is different from the Maps geocoder. You may need to
raise an issue.
http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/list

[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
> 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...

[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 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 ?

[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 correct result straight away.

Nevertheless, I've filed this problem with the data team.

Chris

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[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 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

[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, 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