so I’ve been playing with the google maps geocoding api and I noticed that when I click on a building the returned street address isn’t right.
for example:
I clicked on all the building across my current location and the majority of the address returned the same, something like 5 out 7 buildings returned the same address.
when i click on my current location it may return the address of my actual location or the address of the building across the street.
I tried to duplicate what I was seeing on my project on the google maps app and I was able to duplicate it, if I really tried too…I zoomed in all the way on a building, and clicked on the corner of the property it may give me the next address over but if I click on the center of the building it will always return the right address.
I wonder if am doing something funny with my block, i looked through the google maps api dev documentation and stack overflow to see what other tests i could run but didn’t see much info…any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
ugh well, after walking around and looking at my JSON responses I think part of the issue was
the &result_type=street_address turns out that “street_address” will not necessarily match the actual building address, i made the mistake of assuming it always would.
So for now I will leave the result_type out of my expression. so far leaving that out has been correct every time on all my tests.
here is an image that sort of helps understand what the different locations types can be (other APIs outthere offer more options)…after doing some digging I can understand how two
