wrong location on map

[Postdan]

I made a map with 219 pins. Some of them are wrongly placed on the map because of villages with the same name in the same country (Romania). State/County information is not used?
Other pins are placed in another country. Example: village name Cociuba Mare - Romania, the pin is placed on Via Ludovico Petit Bon in Reggio nell'Emilia Italy. The Romanian village exists on Google Maps. Why is this happening?

[The Map Commissioner]

Let us look into it...will see what's going on and let you know.

[The Map Commissioner]

postdan,

We're not all that familiar with Romania, but what we can tell you is that we use 3 services to geocode.  We use Google, MapQuest, and Yahoo.  If these services do not have the lowest level of granularity for a specific address, then they typically return a higher level such as city, state, or zip code.

Bottom line is that the addresses in Romania that we are trying to geocode are coming back with inaccurate geocodes.  You can see this by manually entering the addresses at: http://compare.innovationgeo.com/default.aspx 

This will show you where each service thinks the entered address is and the associated level of granularity.

[postdan]

Thank You for your reply.
I checked the geocode compare link and for the village "Cociuba Mare" only Google map was correct. Yahoo and Mapquest placed it in U.S.A., so neither one placed it in Italy. Someting is wrong though.
It seems that on line maps don't have good low level granularity for Romania. Not even Google.
Maybe it would be useful to have the option to choose wich map service to use when creating a "mapalist".
Thank you again for your time. Maybe in the future Google/Yahoo/MapQuest will enhance romanian maps and I'll be able to use MapAList with heigher success rate.

[Postdan]

I just found out about http://www.openstreetmap.org/. Can't you add theirs services for geocode? At least for Romania it seems that it's a good map. And it sure is better than Yahoo or MapQuest :)
Well, it's just an idea you might find useful.

[SP-NZ]

I've encountered the same problem too for locations in New Zealand.  GoogleMaps is accurate, but other 2 sources are not...  Would be good to be able to select the data source.

[The Map Commissioner]

Certainly something that is on our list to consider as an enhancement folks - thanks for the feedback as always!