Ask HN: What are some good tools for converting GPS data into a location name?

3 pointsby Devlin_Donnelly14 anni fa6 comments

I am working on a web-based application and I want to read in GPS coordinates provided by the user's browser and output a specific location such as the name of a city or other locality.

Thanks for any tips.

3 comments

got2surf14 anni fa

If by chance you're using Ruby on Rails, then http://www.rubygeocoder.com/ is great.

belbn14 anni fa

http://www.google.com/search?q=GPSDATA

gspyrou14 anni fa

Try using Google maps reverse geocoding https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/#...

Devlin_Donnelly14 anni fa

Thanks for the idea, but apparently google only allows the use this service in conjunction with Google maps, so it won't work for my project.

Maybe there are some open source map databases of GPS coordinates mapped to political/municipal localities?

bartonfink14 anni fa

MapQuest offers a geocoding service which doesn't tie you to MapQuest's maps the way Google does. It's free up to some usage amount (I think it's 5k requests a day). You can see more here:

http://www.mapquestapi.com/geocoding/

Devlin_Donnelly14 anni fa

Thanks it looks like this one might work for my needs.