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Search With City, State, Country and Zip without any format

1. • imran
   • Topic created 14 years ago

   Hello I am using your Search API.
   In my application, I am allowing the users to enter City, State, Country and Zip.
   Our users can enter any of these fields without any format.
   The problem here is that your API restricting me to use the below formats.
   
   l = location
   To narrow a search to a geographic area, use the l parameter to specify a location. The formats available are:
   city,state,country
   postal code,country
   state,country
   postal code (US is assumed country)
   state (US is assumed country)
   
   
   Is there is any way to allow users to enter these fields without using any formats given above?
   I mean users can enter,
   City
   City State
   State City
   Country
   Zip
   Zip City
   
   Please help me

   Message edited by imran 14 years ago

2. active Admin – 14 years ago

   Unfortunately not. location has to be in those prescribed formats so that we can properly localize the search query (pull in latitude and longitude). I recommend using the Google Geocoding API, http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/geocoding/, to format your location parameter.

3. imran – 14 years ago

   Thanks