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State field simply populated with "United States"?   Message List  
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Re: State field simply populated with "United States"?

Yes, this is a bug introduced in the upgrade launched last night. The
team is looking into this and hopes to supply a fix soon. Our apologies.

For more information on the improvements made in this release see the
blog post at
http://ylocalblog.com/blog/2007/05/16/yahoo-maps-global-rollout-gets-a-new-look-\
%e2%80%93-and-a-new-platform/


--- In yws-maps@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel Bibbens" <daniel_bibbens@...>
wrote:
>
> Yes. I'm getting the same. I use this service to look up the State of
> a given Zip Code. I notice that if you call:
>
>
http://local.yahooapis.com/MapsService/V1/geocode?appid=YahooDemo&street=701+Fir\
st+Street&city=Sunnyvale&state=CA

>
> the response is normal, but if you call:
>
>
http://local.yahooapis.com/MapsService/V1/geocode?appid=YahooDemo&zip=90292
>
> the data in the response is all screwed up.
>
> --- In yws-maps@yahoogroups.com, "deweesjon" <dewees@> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I've started experiencing the following problem as of this morning:
> > Any request of the form
> >
http://api.local.yahoo.com/MapsService/V1/geocode?appid=XXXXX-&zip=46808
> >
> > will return with the xml:
> > <ResultSet xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
> > xmlns="urn:yahoo:maps" xsi:schemaLocation="urn:yahoo:maps
> > http://api.local.yahoo.com/MapsService/V1/GeocodeResponse.xsd">
> > - <Result precision="zip">
> > <Latitude>41.100651</Latitude>
> > <Longitude>-85.180641</Longitude>
> > <Address />
> > <City>Fort Wayne, IN 46808</City>
> > <State>United States</State>
> > <Zip />
> > <Country>US</Country>
> > </Result>
> > </ResultSet>
> >
> > Notice how the State filed simply holds "United States"?
> >
> > Is this happening to anybody else? Is there anything I can do
about it?
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Jon
> >
>





Wed May 16, 2007 10:36 pm

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Hi, I've started experiencing the following problem as of this morning: Any request of the form ...
deweesjon
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May 16, 2007
7:27 pm

Yes. I'm getting the same. I use this service to look up the State of a given Zip Code. I notice that if you call: ...
Daniel Bibbens
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May 16, 2007
8:14 pm

Yes, this is a bug introduced in the upgrade launched last night. The team is looking into this and hopes to supply a fix soon. Our apologies. For more...
jeremykinsf
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May 16, 2007
10:36 pm

there are other problems that I am seeing with the Geocoding API since last. The "Result" is returning incorrect precision, where a search by a city name...
kind_nation
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May 17, 2007
12:38 am

I ran into this bug too and unfortunately it cost me new users (my state column has a 2 char limit, you can see where that breaks). A good lesson on relying...
pdxrwilliamz
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May 17, 2007
3:17 pm

I heard that this issue was corrected - the developers worked hard to get this quickly resolved - and a few tests of my own confirm this. Thanks to the people...
Alan Brown
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May 18, 2007
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