reverse-geocoding

How to SNAP before RMAN in deCarta DDS?

Some of my routes don't work because the deCarta DDS doesn't find any arc near OLL and/or DLL and the server answers: RMAN|%S=Cannot find path origin%N=0|| How to make the server search a nearby arc (SNAP) and do the route (RMAN) in a single request? ...

Reverse Geocoding Without Web Access

I am working on an application where one of the requirements is that I be able to perform realtime reverse geocoding operations based on GPS data. In particular, I must be able to determine the state/province to which a latitude, longitude pair maps and detect when we have moved from one state/province to another. I have a couple ideas...

How to get the closest significant population centre from a latitude and longitude?

I'm currently trying to reverse geocode a series of lat/long co-ordinates using the Virtual Earth/Bing Maps web services. Whilst I can successfully retrieve an address for the positions I also need to be able to retrieve the closest significant population centre for the position so I can display a heading and distance to the centre of t...

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...

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...

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...

Reverse geo location using openstreetmap

Hello All, I have used openstreet map in my ongoing website. I have developed website using PHP. My requirement is to get ADDRESS based on Geo Location(Latitude & Longitude). Is there any openstreet API available to get location info based on Lat/Lon? Thanks, Vishal Parmar ...

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 ...

How to convert Latitude and longitude to Location name

Hi, How can we get address or location name from latitude and longitude using any API in java? In my applicaiton I have set of latitude and longitude, But I need an API which will return me the location name corresponding to the latitude and longitude. thanks. ...

Reverse Geocoding With Google Map API And PHP To Get Nearest Location Using Lat,Long coordinates

I need a function to get an nearest address or city from coordinates(lat,long) using google map api reverse geocoding and php... Please give some sample code ...

iPhone reverse geocoding: give all possible streets/suburbs??

I know Core Location isnt always accurate on the iPhone. Is there a way to use the location (lat/long) along with the accuracy to then grab all of the possible suburbs/streets in that area? So instead of using the reverse geocoding and having it guess the 'best possible suburb/street, is there a way to make it give an array (or in some ...

Map GEO API Services

Does anyone know of a good even paid API for mapping to get GEO stuff. I am really frustrated with google map giving poor results even though it beats all others. I have tried so far. Google Yahoo BING Mapquest Multimap Can anyone suggest other good services ? Hope ya CAN ! ...

OpenStreetMap reverse geocoding zip codes?

I'm working on a blackberry application and would like to use the OpenStreetMap reverse geo-coding to get an address and/or a street corner. I found Nominatim but it doesn't seem to do zip codes in the US (it has UK postal codes though), is there a OpenStreetMap API to get zipcodes, or some other free/open licensed reverse geocoding or ...

How to look up ZIP/Postal Code by City using Google Maps API?

How can I extract a Postal Code or ZIP of a place by giving Google Maps a city on the map? Basically I'm looking for a free verification service for checking completed addresses for accurate details. I seem to remember the maps API can somehow provide a geographical point when given an address. Now I'm searching for a slightly reverse...

List of GeoCordinates to Postal/Zip Code

Is there a publically available List or a database that has geo-coordinates to Postal/Zip Code mapping ? ...

Finding whether two geo-coordinates lie on the same road

Hi there, Given two geo-coordinates in (latitude,longitude) format, is it possible to find out if they lie on the same road? I want to do this programatically not visually. I can perhaps extract addresses and compare the street name, but since streets can change names over a long distance, this solution doesnt sem to work :( Cheer...

reverse geocode a set of co-ordinates

I have sets of co-ordinates in the following format (-33.9,18.6) How do I go about getting the name of the nearest town or Country for those co-ords? I'm guessing it will involve Javascript, but am happy to also use PHP if appropriate? EDIT: Am trying the Google Reverse Geocoder but having trouble with it. The following code is p...

Transportation Web App - utilizing google or bing map api

I have a MS SQL database with a table that stores geocoded "PICKUP" locations which I eventually may or may not want to display depending on search filters the user selects. These are not static like a brick and mortar store locations. They are added by the applications users 24 hrs a day. The life of a "LOAD" is less than 24 Hrs. Once i...

Reverse geocoding with Google Maps API

I have found this code for reverse geocoding: var point = new GLatLng (lat[1],long[1]); var geocoder = new GClientGeocoder(); geocoder.getLocations (point, function(result) { alert (lat[1]+' '+long[1]+' '+result.address); }); But it pops the alert, saying that result.address is 'undefined'. Any ideas, what could be the problem? EDI...

Web service for Location name using Latitude & Longtitude

I have an iPhone application where i need to find out the current location(in terms of city name or probably the address). But i'm not been able to do that. I can find out the current latitude and longitude. Is there any web service(preferably free of cost) which can return me the current location name if i supply the latitude and longit...