Prevent non-specific address for geocoding?
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Beuy
Nov 25, 2010, 7:47:26 PM11/25/10
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I am working on a website that will allow customers to book a unique
limousine style vehicle, part of the booking process is to enter a
pickup and destination address. If possible I would like to validate
these addresses against Google maps to ensure accuracy and calculate
the distance between A and B. So far I have looked into the geocoding
examples but have run into the problem of users being able to input
very large regions such as major cities.
Is there a way to prevent non-specific addresses from being geocoded
or returning false? E.G I don't want users to be able to enter
"Brisbane" and get a successful geocode result.
If there is a better way to achieve this please let me know.
limousine style vehicle, part of the booking process is to enter a
pickup and destination address. If possible I would like to validate
these addresses against Google maps to ensure accuracy and calculate
the distance between A and B. So far I have looked into the geocoding
examples but have run into the problem of users being able to input
very large regions such as major cities.
Is there a way to prevent non-specific addresses from being geocoded
or returning false? E.G I don't want users to be able to enter
"Brisbane" and get a successful geocode result.
If there is a better way to achieve this please let me know.
Chris Broadfoot
Nov 26, 2010, 1:35:54 AM11/26/10
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http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/reference.html#GeocoderResult
check the 'types' field for 'street_address'
Example:
vs
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JKurtock
Nov 26, 2010, 12:32:15 PM11/26/10
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You might also want to look at LocationType
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/reference.html#GeocoderLocationType
Do run some test cases; I've noticed that when a valid apartment
address is included with the address, the GeoCoder returns
LocationType "approximate." The same address with the apartment
number omitted returns "rooftop."
A non-valid address can return "Range-Interpolated" (if 123 Main St.
existed, it would be "here"). But some valid addresses can return
either Range-Interpolated or Approximate (possibly because the
location is obscured by trees??)
The US post office can validate addresses via their website. You
might check your local post office for something similar.
On Nov 25, 10:35 pm, Chris Broadfoot <c...@google.com> wrote:
> http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/reference.h...
> vshttp://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=48+pirrama+r...
> > .
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/reference.html#GeocoderLocationType
Do run some test cases; I've noticed that when a valid apartment
address is included with the address, the GeoCoder returns
LocationType "approximate." The same address with the apartment
number omitted returns "rooftop."
A non-valid address can return "Range-Interpolated" (if 123 Main St.
existed, it would be "here"). But some valid addresses can return
either Range-Interpolated or Approximate (possibly because the
location is obscured by trees??)
The US post office can validate addresses via their website. You
might check your local post office for something similar.
On Nov 25, 10:35 pm, Chris Broadfoot <c...@google.com> wrote:
> http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/reference.h...
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> check the 'types' field for 'street_address'
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> Example:
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> http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=sydney&senso...
> check the 'types' field for 'street_address'
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> Example:
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> vshttp://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=48+pirrama+r...
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> Chris
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> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Beuy <p.ship...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am working on a website that will allow customers to book a unique
> > limousine style vehicle, part of the booking process is to enter a
> > pickup and destination address. If possible I would like to validate
> > these addresses against Google maps to ensure accuracy and calculate
> > the distance between A and B. So far I have looked into the geocoding
> > examples but have run into the problem of users being able to input
> > very large regions such as major cities.
>
> > Is there a way to prevent non-specific addresses from being geocoded
> > or returning false? E.G I don't want users to be able to enter
> > "Brisbane" and get a successful geocode result.
>
> > If there is a better way to achieve this please let me know.
>
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> Chris
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> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Beuy <p.ship...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am working on a website that will allow customers to book a unique
> > limousine style vehicle, part of the booking process is to enter a
> > pickup and destination address. If possible I would like to validate
> > these addresses against Google maps to ensure accuracy and calculate
> > the distance between A and B. So far I have looked into the geocoding
> > examples but have run into the problem of users being able to input
> > very large regions such as major cities.
>
> > Is there a way to prevent non-specific addresses from being geocoded
> > or returning false? E.G I don't want users to be able to enter
> > "Brisbane" and get a successful geocode result.
>
> > If there is a better way to achieve this please let me know.
>
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Beuy
Dec 1, 2010, 11:59:40 PM12/1/10
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Great! Just what I needed. Thank you for the advice about not relying
on this too much, unfourtanlty there is no freely provided service
from Australia Post to validate street addresses. I'll just be using
the returned gmap results as a rough guide.
On Nov 27, 3:32 am, JKurtock <jkurt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You might also want to look at LocationTypehttp://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/reference.h...
on this too much, unfourtanlty there is no freely provided service
from Australia Post to validate street addresses. I'll just be using
the returned gmap results as a rough guide.
On Nov 27, 3:32 am, JKurtock <jkurt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You might also want to look at LocationTypehttp://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/reference.h...
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