Just messing around, I noticed that JSON is also supported if you
specify json for the output
output=json

http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?output=json&oe=utf-8&ll=37,-122&key=asdad

The XML output size for ll=37,-122 is 421 bytes and the JSON
equivalent is 293 bytes.  If you're doing a lot of requests, which my
app does, saving at any turn you can comes in handy.  Excellent
service as well.  I have a feeling geonames is going to have a lot
more bandwidth opening up in the coming weeks :).

Joe


On Oct 23, 12:14 am, "pamela (Google Employee)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hi Steve-
>
> We don't yet have documentation on the HTTPgeocodingparameters as
> we're awaiting a few improvements to thegeocodinginput/output before
> rehauling the documentation. I suppose we were hoping an industrious
> developer like you would ask in the group about the parameters. :)
>
> Here's an example query - the difference is using the &ll parameter to
> send in the lat/lng:
>
> http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?output=xml&oe=utf-8&ll=37,-122&key=asdad
>
> Note that GClientGeocoder should be used for any user-enteredreverse
> geocodes, due to the way our IP limit system works. The HTTP service
> should be used for tasks likereversegeocodingpoints in a database.
>
> - pamela
>
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Steve King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi Pamela,
>
> > The blog post doesn't discuss issues about using the XML geocoder
> > (maps.google.com/maps/geo?) to performreverselookups. This still
> > appears to be country code only?
>
> > Regards,
> > Steve.
>
> > On Oct 23, 10:44 am, "pamela (GoogleEmployee)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> >> Hi developers-
>
> >> I'm super excited to tell you that we now havereversegeocodingin
> >> the Maps API.
>
> >>  Read this blog post for more 
> >> information:http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2008/10/geocoding-in-reverse....
>
> >> Note that this resolves our #4 request in the issue 
> >> tracker:http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=134
>
> >> Enjoy, and let me know what you create!
>
> >> - pamela
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