On 03/24/2011 01:55 PM, harahara wrote:
Thank you very much for the pointers to geonames.org and Nominatum. Since my
database would be relatively small (around 10000 places) I could look into
implementing a simple lookup table based on the longitude and latitude (if I
want to do it offline).
At the least, I know what is the term that I should be looking for, namely
"reverse geocoding". As you can see I am new to this stuff.
For locations within the US, you can try a URL of the form
http://tin.er.usgs.gov/atlas/point-xml.php?longitude=-78.3&latitude=38.7
View source to see that the result is XML.
Outside North America that service will give only the country.
Peter
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