How does geocoding works?

I am very curious about how geocoding works in Oruxmaps. I ask because sometimes it doesn't find any stuff, sometimes it finds the wrong one, often finds things (at least towns) well and fast.
Is it depending on the map?

Today I was searching for the name of a STREET in my town. I couldn't find it anyways, while google maps of course found it in a sudden.

So the question arose.

Thank you very much!

febs wrote:I am very curious about how geocoding works in Oruxmaps. I ask because sometimes it doesn't find any stuff, sometimes it finds the wrong one, often finds things (at least towns) well and fast.
Is it depending on the map?

Today I was searching for the name of a STREET in my town. I couldn't find it anyways, while google maps of course found it in a sudden.

So the question arose.

Thank you very much!

Hi, febs;

It is an android feature:-->http://developer.android.com/intl/de/reference/android/location/Geocoder.html

OruxMaps not have much control over the results or options.

orux

Bizarre then. How could results in Google Maps be SO different from the ones in Oruxmaps?

Wondering if that could be a matter of the arguments you pass to the getFromLocationName(). Are you using the bounding boxes?

Thanks!

febs wrote:Bizarre then. How could results in Google Maps be SO different from the ones in Oruxmaps?

Wondering if that could be a matter of the arguments you pass to the getFromLocationName(). Are you using the bounding boxes?

Thanks!

Hi, febs,

no, not using a bounding box.

That may be the difference.

The problem is that it is used from the list of wpts, where there is not a relative position.

orux

Odd, i would have thought the opposite: not using a bounding box should get MORE results, or have I understood the documentation the wrong way? Actually the sentence "The results are a best guess and are not guaranteed to be meaningful or correct" is in both way of calling the function and doesn't make much sense, neither.

I didn't really understood what you meant with "is used from the list of wpts, where there is not a relative position", sorry.


Maybe you should test using as bounding box the selected area on the screen?

By the way, I could set up a android SDK and experiment with that.