Indeed, that *is* what I am doing now. I am using geonames for the state, Google for everything else. But my real point is that shouldn't Google just provide this? (Not to mention altitude and timezone, which geonames also provides? But that has been discussed many times on this group.)
On Oct 21, 2:14 am, Andrew Leach <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.htmlhttp://www.geonames.org/export/web-services.html > > Eghttp://ws.geonames.org/countrySubdivision?lat=47.03&lng=10.2&style=fullhttp://ws.geonames.org/countrySubdivision?lat=47.03&lng=-110.2&style=... > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
