“ I would like to see the Geocoding API add support for disabling 'snapping' for a Geocoder Request. This would help with distinguishing water from land by checking for the natural_feature address type. However, even if there already is a way to distinguish water from land (all I could find was this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9644452/verify-if-a-point-is-land-or-water-in-google-maps ), this would be helpful for checking whether a LatLng point is actually at an address, as opposed to merely 'close'. ”