Australia suburbs   

We have an application that allows users to search for locations in 
Australia.  As part of this, we allow for city and territory/state searches.  
We have a problem when users are searching on a location in a suburb.  For 
example, we have a location at 99 Wynn Vale Drive, Wynn Vale, SA 5127.  This 
has been geocoded by MapPoint as an imprecise result of Wynn Vale Drive, Wynn 
Vale, SA 5127 which is close enough for us.

When users search by postal code of 5127, this location appears correctly.  
When they search on Wynn Vale, SA no results are found.

To check this, i went into the customer service site and tried to Geocode 
Wynn Vale, SA.  This returns a number of locations, none of which is Wynn 
Vale.  I then tried maps.live.com which also can not find Wynn Vale.  I have 
seen this for several Australian suburbs. 

It seems that MapPoint is aware of Wynn Vale since it is returning an 
address in Wynn Vale from our batch geocoding but I am not able to search for 
it.  Am I missing something?

date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:45:00 -0700   author:   Joe McKee