Forums - View Thread - LOCATION field

Welcome Guest | Login

Index | Recent Threads | Register |

Forums » List all forums » Forum: Wish List » Thread: LOCATION field

Quick Go »

Thread Status: Normal
Total posts in this thread: 2

[Change thread status] [Delete this Thread] [Move this Thread]
[Add To My Favorites] [Watch this Thread] [Post new Thread]

Author

This topic has been viewed 172 times and has 1 reply

hcacalendar
Newbie

USA
Joined: Nov 4, 2009
Posts: 38
Status: Offline

LOCATION field	Reply to this Post Reply with Quote
	[Delete this Thread]

Location: (full address)
This line is confusing. My affiliates are inputting things like “Homestead Historic Town Hall Museum, 41 N Krome Avenue”. Google Maps showed a park in Arizona. “41 N Krome Avenue, Homestead” shows Florida City. “41 N Krome Avenue, 33030” gets the right place. I would suggest the line be changed to “Street address and ZIP code” (City and state seem unnecessary,)
And my address “19800 SW 180 Avenue, 33187” shows a place on 180 Street, not 180 Avenue, a few miles away. http://maps.google.com/ does it right.
----------------------------------------
BillWhite36

[Oct 7, 2011, 4:53:40 PM] [66.217.44.165]

[Link]

support
localendar Expert

Joined: Aug 9, 2022
Posts: 6437
Status: Offline

Re: LOCATION field	Reply to this Post Reply with Quote
	[Delete this Post]

The easy one first:

And my address “19800 SW 180 Avenue, 33187” shows a place on 180 Street, not 180 Avenue, a few miles away. http://maps.google.com/ does it right

That's a Google bug. They actually parse addresses better on their public site than they do via their API. There are a lot of messages on their forums complaining about this.

We can't say "Street address and Zip code" since Zip codes don't mean anything outside the US. We actually changed the description already to "full address" hoping people would get it. Space is limited, but perhaps we can add a help pop-up or something.
----------------------------------------
Marc Higgins
Support Associate, localendar.com
Follow us on Twitter! http://www.twitter.com/localendar_news

[Oct 17, 2011, 4:05:11 PM] [68.198.253.122]

[Link]

[Show Thread Printable Version] [Post new Thread]