Comments on: GeoNames supports reverse geocoding

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 02:31:39 +0000

Hi Joel – yes, you can check out GeoNames’ web services here: http://www.geonames.org/export/ws-overview.html

By: Joel Divekar

Joel Divekar — Sun, 30 May 2010 13:59:10 +0000

Hi Andrew

I am looking for a reverse geo coder api (online) to get area / street info on basis of lat & lng info. Is GeoNames having any open / free api which can be querried online?

Regards

Joel
Mumbai, India

By: tom buckley

tom buckley — Wed, 12 May 2010 02:57:50 +0000

just came across this while trying to look up addresses for the walkscore api. thanks guys

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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