Comments on: GeoNames supports reverse geocoding

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By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 12:41:46 +0000

Thanks Marc, I knew I had run across the other service, but couldn’t find the URL when I was writing the blog post.

GeoNames is a great service. Thanks!

By: marc

marc — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 06:38:09 +0000

Andrew,

Geonames is testing right now two new reverse geocoding web services. The new services are far more specific and return the street, an educated guess for the street number and the closest intersection.
For your lat/lng the service returns “Spring Dr.” as the nearest street and “Spring Dr. / Orchard Dr” as the nearest intersection :

http://www.geonames.org/maps/reverse-geocoder.html

Marc