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My company is using the Google Maps API to power an installer locator for our product. All has been going fine up until now, when I’ve added installers on the Channel Islands (UK). Is there any way I can get the Google Maps API to recognize these locations for me?
There isn’t! Geolocation in the channel islands (as provided by google) is very patchy. It doesn’t seem to recognize postcodes, for instance.
My company is based on Jersey. On our site, we geolocate a user, then place a marker on the map as to where we think they are. We set this marker to ‘draggable’, and allow the user to drag the marker to their location if its inaccurate. You can get info on how precisely you have located someone from the API – if its not good enough, you can give extra prompts to tell the user to locate themselves.
This isn’t an ideal solution, but its important to have – geolocation services do not work accurately everywhere in the world.