Comments on: Geocoding Addresses using Google Maps

By: admin

admin — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:14:36 +0000

Hi Jay, Yes no problem see your email.

thanks
Sean

By: Jay

Jay — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:13:39 +0000

Hi Sean,

I’m only conceptually aware of XML. I’m attempting to get the other address values out of the values returned by google. While my formatting is consistent, I can only get coordinates, postal code and accuracy. Can you help me get the rest?

Much appreciated.

Jay

By: admin

admin — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:22:43 +0000

Hi Micky, This is one of the reasons I prefer to use the CSV version of the return feed. It is incredibly easy to parse and much smaller to receive. The downside of course is that it doesn’t return any of the information you need. It returns geocoded coordinates and an accuracy rating.

As for parsing the XML feed… PHP has a huge library of XML parsing functions and there are various examples online for doing so. I personally find the PHP funcion xml_parse_into_struct a nice one to use.

Let me know if i can help you any more.

thanks
Sean

By: Micky Hill

Micky Hill — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:06:54 +0000

Do you know how to extract only the postal_code and the Locality from the xml file?