On Oct 21, 5:39 am, lks <[email protected]> wrote: > > But it is not only the 50 states of the US that I have to worry > about. What about the Canadian provinces, or lots of other countries > that have regions or provinces? To solve this world-wide, I'd have to > get the Google abbreviation for each region, state, or province and > then map it into a full name (hopefully their abbreviation is a > "standard' one, but I would have to determine that). When you think > that I have to keep a parallel database, it didn't sound all that > appealing.
http://www.geonames.org/export/ws-overview.html http://www.geonames.org/export/web-services.html Eg http://ws.geonames.org/countrySubdivision?lat=47.03&lng=10.2&style=full http://ws.geonames.org/countrySubdivision?lat=47.03&lng=-110.2&style=full Andrew --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
