Comments on: Google Maps API shows off vastly improved geocoding http://www.digitalearthblog.com/200805/google-maps-api-shows-off-vastly-improved-geocoding/ Keeping up with the various digital globe products from companies such as Google, Microsoft and more Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:31:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: mickey http://www.digitalearthblog.com/200805/google-maps-api-shows-off-vastly-improved-geocoding/#comment-659 mickey Thu, 08 May 2008 00:17:16 +0000 http://www.digitalearthblog.com/?p=275#comment-659 Pamela,

Thanks for the info. That explains it.

However, what is the purpose in using different datasets? Wouldn’t you be better off using one and then tweaking to be as accurate as possible?

]]> By: Pamela Fox http://www.digitalearthblog.com/200805/google-maps-api-shows-off-vastly-improved-geocoding/#comment-658 Pamela Fox Wed, 07 May 2008 23:32:59 +0000 http://www.digitalearthblog.com/?p=275#comment-658 Google Maps is licensed to use Navteq data. Google Maps API is licensed to use Teleatlas data. The rooftop data comes from the Teleatlas database. Therefore.. :)

]]> By: que http://www.digitalearthblog.com/200805/google-maps-api-shows-off-vastly-improved-geocoding/#comment-646 que Thu, 01 May 2008 22:58:32 +0000 http://www.digitalearthblog.com/?p=275#comment-646 Nope, didn’t work well for me. My address was off by several houses even though I’ve manually pinpointed my house thru the maps ‘edit’ option. Using the regular Maps site still locates it correctly though.

]]> By: mickey http://www.digitalearthblog.com/200805/google-maps-api-shows-off-vastly-improved-geocoding/#comment-645 mickey Thu, 01 May 2008 17:22:23 +0000 http://www.digitalearthblog.com/?p=275#comment-645 Very good point. They’ve probably got a ton of markers that have been tweaked, so they don’t want to erase those with the new geocoding.

I’ll be curious to see what they eventually do with it.

]]> By: Frank Taylor http://www.digitalearthblog.com/200805/google-maps-api-shows-off-vastly-improved-geocoding/#comment-644 Frank Taylor Thu, 01 May 2008 17:01:11 +0000 http://www.digitalearthblog.com/?p=275#comment-644 The Google Maps database also has input from many users who have used the “Edit -> Move Marker” feature. I imagine they will have to integrate the new database with this user database. Also, I suspect they want to “try it out” to see what the reaction is before they put it on the main Maps database.

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