The Google Maps API v2.60 adds, among other features, an accuracy attribute for the geocoder, that is how accurately the address could be geocoded. For example, the geocoder returns 7 (intersection level accuracy) for the address “Haight and Ashbury St, San Francisco” and 4 (town level accuracy) for “New York City”.

Relation to my thesis: Accuracy is an attribute of location quality. This value could helps defining the granularity of the location information to be displayed matching the data given to the geocoder.

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