Convert coordinates to a place name

Question

Hey,

I am using the HTML5 Geolocation API to find the longitude and the latitude from the users of my site. This works, but now I would like te show on the screen "You cuurently are in ...". So I need to convert these coordinates I get from the Geolocation API to a place name.

I tried a bit with Google Maps API, but I Didn't get it working.

Does anyone knows how to do this.

This is my code so far

<script src="http://maps.google.com/maps?file=api&amp;amp;v=2&amp;amp;sensor=true&amp;amp;key=ABQIAAAA55ubMQxcIybj35yHYV_iGRTrPfqOlZVmBxwB40M45alaTGbn0hTaoOvTqt2CB0iR6c1SkxYmRqRvHA" type="text/javascript"></script>

    <script type="text/javascript">


            // When loaded go to:
            initiate_geolocation();

            function initiate_geolocation() {
                navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(handle_geolocation_query,handle_errors);
            }

            function handle_errors(error)
            {
                switch(error.code)
                {
                    case error.PERMISSION_DENIED: document.getElementById("geo").innerHTML = "User did not share geolocation data";
                    break;

                    case error.POSITION_UNAVAILABLE: document.getElementById("geo").innerHTML = "Could not detect current position";
                    break;

                    case error.TIMEOUT: document.getElementById("geo").innerHTML = "retrieving geolocation position timed out";
                    break;

                    default: document.getElementById("geo").innerHTML = "unknown geolocation error";
                    break;
                }
            }

            function handle_geolocation_query(position){
                document.getElementById("geo").innerHTML = "Your coordinates are " + position.coords.latitude + ", " + position.coords.longitude;

var geoCoder = new GClientGeocoder();

   geoCoder.getLocations(new GLatLng(position.coords.latitude, position.coords.longituder, true), getPositionName());


            }

function getPositionName(response)
{
//
// Here I don't know what to do
//
}
    </script>

Thanks,
Vincent

Answer 1

The Google Maps API Docs have what seems to be a complete reverse geocoding example. (Note that this is the new V3 API!)