Interesting Things
- Yahoo's Geolocation service is broken after they released a new version if their code. Zip code searching in particular significantly broken -- discussion thread here: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/yws-maps/message/5468 -- here is an example:
- Search for a zip code using the following URL: http://local.yahooapis.com/MapsService/V1/geocode?appid=YahooDemo&location=94102
- Result (notice the bad State and Zip tags):
<code>
<\?xml version="1.0"?>
<\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>37.779411
<\Longitude>-122.417740
<\Address>
<\City>San Francisco, CA 94102
<\State>United States
<\Zip>
<\Country>US
<\/Result>
<\/ResultSet>
<\!-- ws05.search.re2.yahoo.com compressed/chunked Thu May 17 15:02:00 PDT 2007 -->
</code>
UPDATE This is fixed! Thanks, Yahoo!