LocalSearch - results criteria / max distance?

[jhodgski]

Does anyone know what the maximum distance used by the LocalSearch API
is when finding matching places? And is it possible for me to
configure it in my code?

Cheers,
James

[Jeremy Geerdes]

There is no maximum distance. Even though the API uses distance as a weighting factor when calculating relevance, there is no hard radius. And there is no way to configure a hard radius. However, you can direct the API to weight distance more heavily by using the sspn parameter. Look in the documentation to see how you can do that.

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[jhodgski]

Thanks Jeremy,

The sspn parameter looks good, but where/how does it fit into my code?

My code...
// Create a search control
var searchControl = new google.search.SearchControl();

// Create and customise localSearch
var localSearch = new google.search.LocalSearch();

localSearch.setAddressLookupMode(google.search.LocalSearch.ADDRESS_LOOKUP_DISABLED);

// Add local searcher
var options = new google.search.SearcherOptions();
options.setExpandMode(google.search.SearchControl.EXPAND_MODE_OPEN);
searchControl.addSearcher(localSearch, options);

Thanks,
James

On Aug 20, 3:04 am, Jeremy Geerdes <jrgeer...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There is no maximum distance. Even though the API uses distance as a weighting factor when calculating relevance, there is no hard radius. And there is no way to configure a hard radius. However, you can direct the API to weight distance more heavily by using the sspn parameter. Look in the documentation to see how you can do that.
>
> Jeremy R. Geerdes
> Effective website design & development
> Des Moines, IA
>
> For more information or a project quote:http://jgeerdes.home.mchsi.com

> jrgeer...@gmail.com