Barry,
It appears there is a method for this:
getLatLng(address, callback)
Sends a request to Google servers to geocode the specified address. If the address was successfully located, the user-specified callback function is invoked with a GLatLng point. Otherwise, the callback function is given a
null point. In case of ambiguous addresses, only the point for the best match is passed to the callback function. (Since 2.55)
Thanks,
Randal
Barry O'Brien wrote:Hi Randal,
I don't know anything about the google maps interface but going back a few months I was under the impression it only worked on lat\long co-ordinates.
The last company I worked for had to buy a data set for all UK addresses which also had all the lat\long co-ordinates in it. This way they could just do a database lookup using the address to get the lat\long co-ordinates to then do the google maps lookup.
I wasn't involved in the development of this unfortunately so I can't tell you any more about how it worked. In any case I would imagine the google maps api has moved on since then!
Kind regards,
Barry