Help displaying exact location in gmaps

[Paul]

I'm able to display a map and a streetview, however I'm not able to pinpoint exact location of an address as the very start of the address (the number or housename name) is not being returned in the result, so the map and streetview is displaying as approximate 

See the example here http://bhartisolutions.net/street/street_view.html

I'm trying to pinpoint location of 61A de bauvoir road,London,n1 5au the '61A' is not being included in the result.. 

Be grateful if someone could point out what needs updating in the code to get an exact address displayed

Thanks very much,  Paul

[JKurtock]

First, Google Maps thinks you're spelling the street name
incorrectly. (maps gives 61A De Beauvoir Road, Hackney, London N1
5AU, UK But (I assume) you would know better.

Do you know where 61A is? (And is this the wrong location?) Just
because street view says the location is approximate doesn't mean that
it doesn't have the right place.

If you use the displayed arrows to move up and down the street, google
Maps doesn't display any house numbers on De Beauvoir Rd (at least for
the block or two I checked). So it may be that Google Maps just
doesn't have that information.

- Jeff

On Aug 12, 1:37 pm, Paul <paulrmun...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm able to display a map and a streetview, however I'm not able to pinpoint
> exact location of an address as the very start of the address (the number or
> housename name) is not being returned in the result, so the map and
> streetview is displaying as approximate
>

> See the example herehttp://bhartisolutions.net/street/street_view.html

[Paul]

Hey Jeff,

The spelling is just wrong in the code, I can't update it right now but will later. Assume that the address is right '61A De Beauvoir Road', I can assure you it won't pinpoint this or any other address because it is not recognising the housename or street number.

I know google has the information as when I search in maps.google.com it is there...

[JKurtock]

Not for me. When I use maps.google.com, the panorama view also says
"address is approximate." (I'm running my search from the US, not UK,
so that might make a difference in what it finds.)

Would you recognize the location if either the API or maps.google.com
got it right? Does maps.google.com get the right location,
notwithstanding the disclaimer in the panorama window?

On Aug 13, 1:58 am, Paul <paulrmun...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Jeff,
>
> The spelling is just wrong in the code, I can't update it right now but will
> later. Assume that the address is right '61A De Beauvoir Road', I can assure

> you it won't pinpoint this *or any other address* because it is not

[Rossko]

> I'm trying to pinpoint location of 61A de bauvoir road,London,n1 5au the
> '61A' is not being included in the result..

Do you know the actual location of 61A? It may be above, behind,
inside 61 and so not available to streetview anyway?

[Paul]

Hey so look here is if I i search in maps.google.com it's able to show the exact address in streetview

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=61A+De+Beauvoir+Road,+Hackney,+London+N1+5AU,+United+Kingdom&hl=en&ll=51.539202,-0.07993&spn=0.005232,0.014355&sll=51.539990,-0.081193&sspn=0.006295,0.006295&layer=c&cbp=13,288.53,,0,0.08&cbll=51.539929,-0.080904&z=17&iwloc=A&panoid=lV6bWiZlQt4TDGeNQqxPPA

As I said before this isn't about this specific address, I'm not able to show an exact location for any address as the number for the street isn't being recognised..

[davie]

Hi
If you examine streetview it seems to be a series of still
photographs. I assume the database is searched for the photo nearest
the coordinates given. This in all probability wont show the exact
address, it may be on a completely different street!. maps.google.com
search is probably using a different database or the search query may
be different. For a free service I think the results obtainable are
oustanding.
Regards Davie

On Aug 14, 6:59 pm, Paul <paulrmun...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey so look here is if I i search in maps.google.com it's able to show the
> exact address in streetview
>

> http://maps.google.com/maps?q=61A+De+Beauvoir+Road,+Hackney,+London+N...

[Paul]

the streetview does show exact location using maps.google.com, as it does for maps..

are you saying that you think with the api you can't pinpoint location to number on street level?..

[davie]

Hi
Street view doesn't always give the exact location! If you search for
61,Huntly Terrace Paisley, UK you will get a location at 5 houses
away from the correct one (the house next to the white one).As I said
I think the API cannot provide the exact location due to the
limitations I suggested. If you are trying to search various locations
I cant think of a way round this using the API. If you only want to
show one location you will need to hard code it
Regards Davie

[Paul]

Hey Davie,

Thanks for your messages. Ok so for streetview it seems its sometimes not spot on, I take it does this mean the maps is also sometimes out a bit or do you find this is more exact?

To have very close by (like a couple of houses along) this is ok, I've also seen cases where it is showing the exact location (and correct streetview). I still need to try and get the api to recognise the number in the address though to provide this accuracy. To give an extreme example I live on a road with over 600 numbered street addresses (Kingsland Road, London), if I can only get an approx location in the middle of street then that's really limiting

Check out the code now http://bhartisolutions.net/street/street_view.html its pinpointing 106 Baker Street when I'm trying to view 50 Baker Street.. 

Seems you can do tons of things with the api I'll be amazed if it can't allow you to pass through the number for the street.. 

[davie]

Hi Paul
I geocoded 61 huntly terrace and the location was eve less accurate,12
houses.
I assume this is a function of the database/search. Looking at it
logically what size of database would it require to store the data for
all possible addresses in the world, the UK alone has over 28 million.
The normal approach is to geocode the address, show it on a map, and
get the viewer to correct the position. The correct position is then
stored in your own database. I have not tried this to find that this
will provide a correct position in streetview.
I suggest you try this using streetview-simple.html from the api v3
reference

Regards Davie

[Paul]

Its not so much about streetview accuracy its about the address in google maps.. just seems that the API doesn't provide same accuracy as maps.google.com..