Is there an API convert long/lat to city,country rather than Google API

Question

Hi All, Is there an API convert long/lat to city,country rather than Google API?

I found that geonames does not give the city.

Thanks, Ling

Answer 1

http://highearthorbit.com/geocommons-open-sourced-geocoder/

http://gislab.usc.edu/i/publications/gislabtr11.pdf

http://www.gisgraphy.com/

many more to be found 'opensource geocoding'

Answer 2

Actually, outside the US the geonames API call 'extendedFindNearby' does in fact give city/country hierachy rather than just the address information. EG: http://ws.geonames.org/extendedFindNearby?lat=-34.9663955375277&lng=150.719617020043