Google Static Maps API Locates to Wrong Location?

Question

In a project I am using both the Javascript and Static Google Maps APIs. The problem I am running into is that the Static Maps API is locating to the wrong location. I am sending it Latitude and Longitude coordinates and it will ends trying to convert it to an address or something.

Try putting: 37.133212 -113.504478 into maps.google.com and you will see what I mean, I want it to show the green arrow location not the red marker location.

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Calling directly from maps.google.com is not the same as calling to maps.google.com/staticmap. Are you declaring your lat-long pair using the markers parameter? I don't use the static maps, since I want the more flexible options of the JS API, but here's an example that I verified in Firefox:

The service URL for the request is:



http://maps.google.com/staticmap



Since Y!A will no doubt truncate the href due to length and lack of blanks, the parameters of the URL for the href are:



center = 37.133212, -113.504478

size = 512x512

maptype = mobile

markers = 37.133212, -113.504478, reda %7C37.133212, -113.504478

key = {your key}



Remove all the blanks and glue these parameters together in URL form.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Google Maps Wrong Location

Answer 4

Google is not perfect. You need to notify them of any errors you find.



I once was searching for motels in Burbank, CA, and it showed me a really nice Best Western at a very specific address -- except that when I called that motel, it was in Pleasanton, CA, about 300 miles away!



I checked and rechecked, and it just kept coming up Best Western Pleasanton, in Burbank.



I notified Google about the problem, but I have no idea if they ever fixed it. (Ended up staying at a Radisson Suites)