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Searching for a Japanese Telephone Number

I got a call from an unknown number on my Keitai but didn’t answer it. It looked like a business number with repeating parts (043-224-1010) and I knew that it was in Chiba by the first 3 digits. Being paranoid, instead of calling it back I went and searched on the internet. It turns out [...]


Google Maps Japan vs. Google Maps US

Using Google Maps to do geocoding of addresses in Japan and the US gives back much different results. Geocoding is when you ask Google Maps for information about an address. For example, you could search for “Empire State Building” and get back the address “Empire State Building, New York, NY 10001, USA” along with it’s [...]


Setting size and zoom level of maps

What I though was going to be an easy case of looking through the google maps API for a solution to bounds turned into a mammoth task today. I wanted a way to make the centre and zoom of a map change according to the points it contained, with the centre being the average of [...]