Lower accuracy threshold for Google API U.S. geocoding [#117027]

The accuracy threshold when geocoding U.S. locations is set to 7 or 8, meaning that addresses with just zip codes or with street level accuracy are not geocoded.

(Accuracy levels are described here: http://googlemapsapi.blogspot.com/2006_07_01_googlemapsapi_archive.html)

This patch changes the threshold level to 5 and above, so that zip codes will get geocoded more accurately than relying on the zip code tables, which have some errors.

Comment	File	Size	Author
	location.us_.inc_.patch	547 bytes	mcarbone

Comments

Comment #1

mcarbone commented 9 February 2007 at 19:29

Status:

Active

» Needs review

Comment #2

owen barton commented 23 February 2007 at 20:20

I agree that this is a good change - it would be great if this was a setting, ideally separate settings for users and each content type.

With organic groups especially, it is very useful to be able to set a low value here and still get a useful geocoding for just a city name, for example (a group might not have an actual street address). For physical events, however we only want street level geocoding, to prevent map-following confusion :)