Posts Tagged ‘geocoding disambiguation’

Handling the Leeds/Reichenbach problem (Geocoding Disambiguation)

Developers of web mapping applications often hit an unexpected issue with geocoding (searching for the lat/lon of places).  You expect a geocodong request to return a single Lat/Lon pair (e.g. when searching for London, UK) but sometimes multiple locations are returned (and this may crash your app with an unexpected result)  So why does this [...]