geocoding

How to find State location from iphone GPS?

Hello all I'm trying to add to my program that locates the person in GPS but sets a value to the State that person is in so example: GPS Locates person from his/her iphone then returns the state they are in so say its California then the state variable gets set to California as a string would someone have an example any help is apprec...

Using Dell GPS in FireFox 3.5, not Google/Skyhookwireless

I want to make sure FireFox is using my local GPS on my machine (Dell Mini-10) for Location Aware browsing, not Google wi-fi triangulation services. How would one make sure FireFox is using the GPS? To use GPS a driver or browser plugin (Loki?) I assume is needed to talk locally with Firefox and local hardware. Firefox config would ...

What is the limit for reverse-geocode lookups on iPhone?

I'm trying to find out the limit for reverse-geocode lookups on iPhone, are they per application/per device and how many per day? The doco just states: MKReverseGeocoder Each Map Kit application has a limited amount of reverse geocoding capacity, so it is to your advantage to use reverse geocode requests sparingly. Here are som...

avoiding geocode range collisions

I am in the process of extracting location entities ('Madison Square Garden', 'San Diego Zoo', etc.) from a large table of non-uniform location. I'm trying to avoid multiple entities in my new table. I don't have reliable street addresses, but am trying to extract addresses within a local range. I am doing this by counting and matchin...

Google Geocode: PHP Implimentation - character encoding issues

Hello, I'm working with UK address data and also International address data. I need to geocode the address data for use on a google map. I'm doing this using the HTTP service. Ie/ Constructing a query string and passing it to file_get_contents($THEURL). I've managed to geocode 80% of the address data perfectly, however those addresse...

Using Quest Geo Solutions GIQ60 library on a 64bit machine

We are using Quest Geo Solution's Grid InQuest DLL (GIQ60.DLL) within an SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) package. We have managed to use this without problems locally (32bit) by using tlbimp to create a .NET wrapper (interop). However, when this moved to our integration server this does not work as the server is 64bit. The GIQ6...

geocoding function works when called in initialized, but not in onclick script

hi, I'm doing some geocoding using the google maps API. The user fill a form with some address, and when the submit button is clicked, a codeAddress() function is called, which is supposed to perform the geocoding, but it does not work. As a test, I hardcoded the address and call the codeAddress function when the document in an initiali...

Trying to use a Google Maps user interface to caputre Lat/Lon in Django

I'm a Django newbie, and learning quickly. But I just can't figure out how to get this simple Google Maps user interface to pass the resulting lat/lon into my database. Can anyone help? ...

Returning neighborhood based on address with Google geocoder/API

Is there any way to effectively/accurately pull out a neighborhood within a city based on a passed in address, zip, city, state to the Google Geocoder? Whenever I try to do it via HTTP (ideal solution) It returns the following info <kml> − <Response> <name>anthonys cookies san francisco California</name> − <Status> <code>200</code> <re...

How can I get lat/lang with Geocode?

I have an address, and now I need to retrieve the Lat / Lang coordinates. At Google, they only have good examples for V2 and not V3. I want to do the following: var myLatLAng = getLatLang(adress); How can I modify this code to make that happend? function showAddress(address) { geocoder.getLatLng( address, function(point) {...

Why do I get "map.set_center is not a function" ?

Hi. This code have been working until I updated last night. The code works perfectly on my localhost, but I get an error on my test server. The error message (from Firebug) is "map.set_center is not a function". So why is this not working on my server any more? function googleMapInit() { if (jQuery('#map_canvas').length ...

Is there a google maps java api where i can enter a placename and get the address as result? (geocoding)

Hi i want through Java to geocode a given place or anything similar like "Hungarian National Library, Budapest" or "úri utca, budapest". I want from these to get coordinates (geocoding). I saw that for similar google applications like google translate there is an api for Java (http://code.google.com/p/google-api-translate-java/) Is t...

Google Geocoding / Airport Info

Hi, I've been looking for list of types of queries that geocoder supports beyond regular address geocoding. At this time I need to query google for airport locations. I have sumbled upon this document: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-grails05208/index.html but it mentions no place where I can get up-to-date list of allow...

Reverse Geocoding for Israel

Where can i find a free service for reverse geocoding a coordinate in israel to get a street address? the google api web service doesnt give me a street address in israely coordinates... Thanks. ...

Large volume geocoding and distance checking

I am trying to write an app for a company that maintains a registry that is updated everyday. The app will have to take the user's location and display all the nearest locations that are in that registry. Thus far I have gotten the app to call out to google and get geocoding information for a small Plist that I came up with. However, con...

Iphone SDK: adding israel roads and streets to MapKit.

MKMapview, class of the mapkit framework for the iphone doesn't display israel streets, cities or any other details by default, how can i add it? is there something i have to buy and put in my program? I Just can't find where to start.. ...

Is there any service returning ZIP Codes on given city/satate ?

Hi, is there any server available that i can use for getting zip codes on the basis on city/state ? Thanks ...

Smart ways to determine if a search request is an address or a business for use in Google APIS?

Here is the problem, I have an app with a search bar, the user can input something like "18th Street" or "Starbucks" and it uses the Google Geocoding and Local Search APIs respectively to get results. I'm wondering is there a smart way to determine whether or not a given input string is an address that needs to be Geocoded, or a busines...

Looking for Python/Django Framework to query GeoLocation Data in DB

I'm looking for a way to store a number of points, zipcode and their latitude and longitude in a database, and given a query point Q's lat and longitude, find the set of the points in the DB that are within x miles of the point Q. I realize something like a kd-tree would do the trick. I was wondering if there is any built-in python libr...

Google App Engine Geohashing

I am writing a web application using GWT and App Engine. My application will need to post and query items based on their latitude, longitude. As a result of google's distributed database design you can't simple query a set of inequalities. Instead they suggest doing geohashing. The method is described on this page. http://code.goo...