I understand. so I need to find a reverse geocoding service? - Ran
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 19:22, Stephen Woodbridge (via Nabble) < [email protected]<ml-user%[email protected]> > wrote: > rmanor wrote: > > > > Is it possible to do reverse geocoding with OpenLayers (give > > longitude/latitude and get street name/city name) ? > > > > Thanks. > > Yes, but you probably need a server side component to do the actual > reverse geocoding. For example here is an application that I build: > > http://imaptools.com/maps2/tiger.html > > if you single click on the map is will reverse geocode that location and > put the results in a marker. If you click the marker it will open with > the xml results in it. > > The single click does an Ajax request back to my server to do the > reverse geocoding and then create a marker and puts the xml text as the > contents of the marker. One could just as easily parse the xml and put > is in a more human readable form in the marker. > > You can look the the page source to see how I did the client side of this. > > -Steve Woodbridge > http://imaptools.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [hidden > email]<http://n2.nabble.com/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=3721218&i=0> > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > > ------------------------------ > View message @ > http://n2.nabble.com/Reverse-Geocoding-tp3720968p3721218.html > To unsubscribe from Reverse Geocoding, click here< (link removed) =>. > > > -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Reverse-Geocoding-tp3720968p3721258.html Sent from the OpenLayers Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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