In order to convert a point into a city name, you'll have to reverse geocode the point. Usually this takes a database of the cities of interest in the form of a polygon of the city boundaries and using some sort of software (like Postgresql) to discover what polygon (city) the point is contained within. The geonames.org site has some excellent data and the price is right (free) but using it may be a problem if you are unable to implement the programming required to make it work.
There is no issue with the "perfect match" of coordinates that you're talking about. What you need is for your database of polygons to be in the WGS84 coordinate system and if you use points generated from a Google API based map, you should have that "perfect match" you seek without doing anything. I believe geonames.org has data for your country, but if not, you can develop it yourself by using one of the polygon tracing programs available free, manually tracing boundaries around each city of interest and saving those to a database. While this might seem like a lot of work, it probably is the best solution if you want to have accurate and maintainable data. There also might be this data available from a government body somewhere. You'll have to do the research on that yourself. The US has great stores of this type of data for free, so Ecuador may also, only way to find out is to start searching (Google is your friend). -John Coryat http://maps.huge.info http://www.usnaviguide.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
