Geocoding with the new family search API

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stuporglue-p40
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Geocoding with the new family search API

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Hello, we're working on a Google Maps / New Family Search mashup, and we need to get the geocodes for each individual in a user's family tree. Brother Clarke said there was a geocoding API, however I can't find any documentation on it.

Does anyone know where I can find information on geocoding?


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Michael Moore
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stuporglue-p40
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Nothing on Devnet

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Yes, I checked devnet. I've got access on that site to see the documentation hosted there, but I don't see anything about geocoding.
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The present Google mashup works very well, I've seen it during some training I took this week at the Utah Valley FH training center.

If you add information that the system does not already have, the next time you view the map, the new locations are there. It's accurate for the most part as well, I didn't see anything different generally. I found it updates with the new information as I added a death and burial location for an ancestor that the system did not have.
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I'm not sure exactly what you are looking for. Perhaps it's the part of the API that deals with places. If you go to labs.familysearch.org, you'll find the standard finder, which will take a place name and convert it to a site ID as well as give alternate names for the same time. However, I think it only codes down to the city level. I don't think it's designed to deal with street addresses and the like, but I could be wrong.
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I believe that Stuporglue is looking for a way to get the longitude/latitude values of the location or place. This is beneficial when mapping out the location and calculating distances between locations. Does anyone know how this 'geocoding' method can be done?
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fryercraig wrote:I believe that Stuporglue is looking for a way to get the longitude/latitude values of the location or place. This is beneficial when mapping out the location and calculating distances between locations. Does anyone know how this 'geocoding' method can be done?
That is correct, I had understood that there was a way to get the long/lat for a given individual's event (eg. long/lat of the person's birth).
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