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ES6 101 - Map

ES6 101 - Map
ES6 Map is the topic of today’s post which also is the 11th in the ES6 101 Series. Map is going to be fairly easy, so before jumping into it, if you want to look at other features we have covered so far, here is a quick list for your reference.Fat Arrow FunctionsLexical Declarations - LetLexical Declarations - ConstSpread OPeratorTemplate LiteralRest OperatorDefault parametersDestructuringFor…ofSetNow let’s see what Map has to offer. As opposed to Set (which by the way, I highly recommend reading), Map saves values as key-value pair. Let’s see for ourselves how this works!Example of ES6 Mapvar dummyMap = newMap(); dummyMap.set("1"); // Method is set as against add in ES6 Setconsole.log(dummyMap); // [["1",null]] dummyMap.set("1", "one"); console.log(dummyMap); // [["1","one"]] dummyMap.set("2", "two").set("3","three"); console.log(dummyMap); // [["1","one&…

Why this difference?

       Several of you must have observed this like I did, that the Google geocoder returns different results on the Google Maps website and Google Maps API v3 for the same address string. To understand why this difference exists, I dug deeper into the web and came up with the following.

       The first and foremost place to look for an answer was the Google Maps API FAQ section. The FAQ section did not let me down of course! The FAQ section says:
The API geocoder and Google Maps geocoder sometimes use different data sets (depending on the country). The API geocoder occasionally gets updated with new data, so you can expect to see results changing or improving over time.
        What I concluded from the above is that, in a lot of cases Google licenses data from other companies like DigitalGlobe, Infoterra Ltd & Bluesky, GeoEye, Getmapping plc, Tele Atlas, etc. When negotiating a licensing agreement for copyrighted map data the two companies have to come to a mutually satisfactory agreement. In some cases, a company might be willing to license data for use in regular Google Maps but not through the Google API. For example, in the UK you have to buy a license to access the post code (Zip code) to longitude/latitude database. Google has precise info for regular Google Maps, but if you do the same query through the API you get a much less precise longitude/latitude. Why? Well if you are the company with the post code to longitude/latitude database and you currently charge people for access, then Google starts giving away access for free, probably no-one's going to want to pay you for access to it any more. So you'd only agree to let Google give away your product for free if they gave you at least as much money as you make by charging for the product!

       Though this is a pretty good conclusion, but then I could see people who have posted several instances on different forums of the same address getting geocoded differently...So I started verifying. One address and an explanation appealed to me and I am sharing it here!

       The address to be geocoded was "brussels (municipality)". Now this address geocodes to "City of Brussels Belgium" through the Google Maps website, whereas using the API returns "Brussels City somewhere in the Philippines". Now, consider the address "brussels (This is a nice place)". This string returns the same address in both - the Google Maps website and Google Maps API v3. Assuming that Google geocoder does not consider the contents in the brackets, then how come "brussels (municipality)"  is geocoded differently?

      Well I couldn't answer this one and so decided to throw this question to all you guys and gals reading this. Could you give a possible explanation?
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