[Xastir-dev] geocoder and "find address" input length

[Derrick J Brashear]

The linmit was "I'm stupid"

I'll fix it when I get home

On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, J. Lance Cotton wrote:

> I just tried out the "find address" feature using the geocoder and ran into
> a problem finding my parents' address:
>
> The input line for the street didn't let me enter the whole address. They
> live on a TX Farm-to-Market road, which is usually abbreviated as FM, but
> the labels in my shapefiles show it as "W Farm-to-Marked Road XXXX"
>
> When I type the full address:
> YYYY W Farm-To-Market Road XXXX", I can't fit it all in because it's too
> long (won't let me type past "...Road XX". Is there a reason for this limit?
>
> It didn't work when I tried just "YYYY W FM XXXX", so I figured the geocoder
> didn't have or know about the abbreviation.
>
> (Actual street number is not really "XXXX" or "YYYY", but I don't want to
> scare my parents!)
>
> -Lance KJ5O
>
> --
> J. Lance Cotton, KJ5O
> joe at lightningflash.net
> http://map.findu.com/kj5o-14
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