Improve Accuracy of Google Map API

Curious if anyone has an answer here.

When I type a location into a field on my app using the Maps API I don’t always get the same results as typing the same thing into Google Maps – despite them being the same…?

For example typing in “Sherman Statue NYC” on google maps gets me the location, but if typed on my Glide App I am placed about a mile away in Central Park.

Thanks!

If you want accuracy, use coordinates. Mapbox isn’t super impressive at geocoding addresses to their respective coordinates. Directly using coordinates on the other hand are always going to be accurate.

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Thanks for the response!

The issue isn’t actually with map box, but with the google maps api not translating an address or description into the correct coordinates.

Not sure then. That would probably be an issue to take up with google. I think people have had decent luck with the Radar integration instead.

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