city impact on results

gistfile1.rb

# see what the confidence code means here:
# http://www.mapquestapi.com/geocoding/geocodequality.html

Web::Address.from_params({ :street => "Canal Road", :city => "Orleans", :state => "MA", :country => "US" })

[{"country_name"=>"United States",
  "city"=>"Orleans",
  "@name"=>"location",
  "latitude"=>41.796795,
  "country"=>"US",
  "one_line_description"=>"[1-41] Canal Rd, Orleans, MA",
  "postal_code"=>"02653",
  "confidence_code"=>"B1AAA",
  "map_url"=>
   "http://www.mapquestapi.com/staticmap/v3/getmap?type=map&size=225,160&pois=purple-1,41.796795,-69.98574,0,0|&center=41.796795,-69.98574&zoom=12&key=Gmjtd|lu6y2l6bnd,as=o5-lwa0q&rand=1123949541",
  "county"=>"Barnstable County",
  "street"=>"[1-41] Canal Rd",
  "exact_match"=>false,
  "longitude"=>-69.98574,
  "traffic"=>{"covered"=>false},
  "state"=>"MA"}]

Request (with city):
street  - not blank
city    - not blank
state   - not blank
country - not blank

Response:
street  - not blank
city    - not blank
state   - not blank
country - not blank

Because

req.street.blank? == resp.street.blank? &&
req.city.blank? == resp.city.blank? &&
req.state.blank? == resp.state.blank? &&
req.country.blank? == resp.country.blank?
== true

skip presenting disambiguation

Web::Address.from_params({ :street => "Canal Road", :state => "MA", :country => "US" })

[{"country_name"=>"United States",
  "city"=>"",
  "@name"=>"location",
  "latitude"=>42.173931,
  "country"=>"US",
  "one_line_description"=>"United States",
  "postal_code"=>"",
  "confidence_code"=>"A3XAX",
  "map_url"=>
   "http://www.mapquestapi.com/staticmap/v3/getmap?type=map&size=225,160&pois=purple-1,42.173931,-71.185501,0,0|&center=42.173931,-71.185501&zoom=3&key=Gmjtd|lu6y2l6bnd,as=o5-lwa0q&rand=-1255768379",
  "county"=>"",
  "street"=>"",
  "exact_match"=>false,
  "longitude"=>-71.185501,
  "traffic"=>{"covered"=>false},
  "state"=>"MA"}]

Request (without city):
street  - not blank
city    - blank
state   - not blank
country - not blank

Response:
street  - blank
city    - blank
state   - not blank
country - not blank

Because

req.street.blank? == resp.street.blank? &&
req.city.blank? == resp.city.blank? &&
req.state.blank? == resp.state.blank? &&
req.country.blank? == resp.country.blank?
== false

present disambiguation