I'm impressed with the simplicity of Microsoft's Virtual Earth Street Address search service.
My requirement is to type rough address info with no comma separators into a simple text box, press a find button, wait a few seconds and then observe a result picklist.
I mocked up something here using the virtual earth SDK.
Does Google Maps have a similar API?
Which street address search service is better?
Yes.
There is a bit of information in these related questions:
How do you perform address validation?
How to obtain longitude and latitude for a street address programmatically (and legally)
There's also the yahoo maps API
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Making a map application on Windows Phone 8. Thanks to a the tutorials on MSDN I can automatically find the users location and, if services are turned off, default to a city.
I would also like to let the user specify their location using a street name or post code. The user will input this into a text box. My question is how do I change thee maps centre to an inputted postcode or street name?
You need to get the GPS coordinates for the address and then center the map to this coordinates. Bing API provides reverse geocoding.
google geocoding API
you can send a Geocoding request and you will get a response as JSON/XML format.
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/?csw=1#GeocodingResponses
This is weird. When I search something like "The New York Palace Hotel,America,New York" in Google maps app's search box I get exactly the hotel on the map.
However When I use the maps API,
A GET at http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=The%20New%20York%20Palace%20Hotel,America,New%20York&sensor=true
I get ZERO results in the response.
It doesn't even give New York as the option in search results.
I am making an app where I use this API to get the lat-long for user provided address.
Now, I don't know why this Google maps API doesn't work the way the Google maps app works.
BUT I wanted to know, is there a way to search and provide Google maps API these search terms as meaningful words where instead of taking whole string as one parameter it knows which city I am searching and which Address I ams searching.
If not, then only option left with me will be to Once the first results fails I make another query for city name only.
recently, i was given a similar task, and came to know the api works reverse... i.e.. we can get address for lat lon that we provide.. and that too has its own restrictions (i.e.. no.of addresses resolved per request, mostly some 2500 address per day something...)....here you can get some info over that...
You are using the Geocoding API. "The New York Palace Hotel,America,New York" is not an address, it is a "place". The Places API might be a better option.
Example of your query using the (javascript version of) the Places API
I am using google map api i am fetching dynamically latitude and longitude from my database.
I want to show address for each position can any one tell me how can id that.
or can any anyone tell how this site is fetching address for each every position.
http://www.findlatitudeandlongitude.com/find-address-from-latitude-and-longitude.php#.UTpYG1c9nwk
Fetching the associated address from a coordinates is called Reverse Geocoding
The Google Maps API provides reverse geocoding in the javascript API and as a web service.
The Google Maps service is not intended for bulk use. Your best option is to store the address in your database along with the coordinates as Reverse Geocoding is not always reliable.
You can use google map api like below
http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?latlng=34.41448,-118.93753&sensor=true
Using this api,you can get address address from key
"formatted_address" : "1271 Cliff Avenue, Fillmore, CA 93015, USA"
Whole address you can get using this api.
Hope need helpful.
I'd guess that site is using the Reverse Geocoding API provided by Google.
all, which google map API could be use for search nearby business spot information like ATM/Branch (address and coordinates information etc)
thanks for help
This service is provided by Google as part of their Places API. As of today, it is only a developer preview, and you must have an Adsense account to register.
A search request will return up to 20 establishments, which indicate their type, so they can be filtered. There seems to be no way to perform a more direct search by type for now.
My users, who may be located anywhere in the world, will be presented with a text box wherein they can enter their address. In most cases, I assume they will physically be in the same country as whatever address they are typing.
I'd like to help Google Map API make better guesses by doing region biasing. Is there a way to tell Google to region bias from where the request is being made? Or how can I give that information to Google when I make the web service call (e.g. convert IP address to country information)?
Thanks.
The last time I checked, the "region bias" for both the client-side and the server-side Google Geocoder was not reliable. Check out this post from last April (tested again right now, and the issue persists):
Google's Geocoder returns wrong country
The most reliable way that I found is to append the country at the end of the address. Therefore if the user is located in the UK, and types "Oxford Street London", you'd attach ", UK" to the address for geocoding.
To get the country of the user, there are quite a few solutions. You could use the Geolocation API as #You suggested in the other answer, or you may want to use a third party IP-to-location service. You may want to check out MaxMind GeoLite City service, which is free, and is reportedly 99.5% accurate on a country level.
In modern browsers you can use the HTML5 Geolocation API as described in Dive Into HTML5. This assumes client-side support and that you're making the requests client-side. For a server-side (or fallback) solution, you could try something like the PHP Geo IP functions.