I am using goole geocoding api to fetch latitude and longitude of a particular address, for some cases it gives me closest to my desired location while some time the position returned by google is many meters away from my given address.My main concern here to ask is, is google the best geocoding provider of there are any third party solutions provide accurate latitude, longitude?
My google API format is something like this
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=[My address, street 123, house 123]&key=[GOOGLE_API_KEY]
Please help out, Thanks :)
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Is it possible to get the reaching time to a particular place from current location latitude longitude to a particular place's latitude longitude in a bicycle?
Or may be i should use API to do the same.
Thanks.
There is an API for finding time from your current location to destination location. (don't know about bicycle transport type)
Below API returns you the possible route to reach at your destination location with distance & how much time your need to reach to the destination place.
Google API
I hope it will help you.
Looking at the latest release of geokit-rails (2.1.0), it looks like they have removed the method geo_scope (https://github.com/geokit/geokit-rails/commit/781c4dc62d3b044196efbfad269d4780e6afbe6b).
However, the README on the github account still says to use it.
If the example they provide in the README -- "Location.geo_scope(:origin => '100 Spear st, San Francisco, CA')" -- no longer works whats the new method?
Problem I am trying to solve:
When users register for my site, I collect their mailing address, I need to convert that to lat/long and store it in my database.
As an alternative you could use an address verification service. Some of these include, SmartyStreets (where I work), Melissa Data, and Lob. I'm not a huge expert with the other providers, but I know with SmartyStreets you can use the street API to get latitude and longitude from an address and have the comfort of knowing that the address exists. SmartyStreets has both a US Street API and an International Street API
If you use a non address verification service like Google Maps, you run the risk of approximate latitude and longitude coordinates being returned to you.
I am working with a project, and so far it is possible to get longitude and latitude by using the phones GPS, and saving the values in variables.
I would like to get the names of all countries with help of longitude and latitude, and I have read about "Geocode" and "Geolocation", but I dont know how to implement this in my code.
Someone who can help me solve this problem?
What you are looking for is a "reverse geocoding" solution, which takes lat/lon coordinates and gives you back postal address including country. Reverse geocoding API is offered by all the usual providers -- Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc.
I want to get the current time based on my input zipcode in php.
E.g. If i will enter 71020 then I want the accurate time of that location.
Is there any web service exists to which I can make a call by sending parameter as zipcode.
Please help me out.
Thanks
First use a service that will give you the latitude and longitude on a zip code. There are many, but an easy one is GeoNames. If you search here on StackOverflow or Google, you will find plenty of others.
Then take a look at the many different ways you can resolve a time zone from a latitude and longitude.
What would be the easiest way to extract the Lat and Long fields of a 'check-in' location being tweeted? When viewing tweets through a client and "expanding" them the location is shown even though the tweet does not always contain the geoLocation properties. I would like to achieve the same result (Is a Foursquare API account needed for that?)
I am using Twitter4j by the way.
Thanks for the help,
Boris
If the information is not in the geoLocation property, you will need to call the foursquare API (https://developer.foursquare.com) to retrieve the lat/lng for the venue the user checked in to. You may want to look at similar questions that have been asked in the past for more details, like: How can I get the position (lat, lon) of a foursquare checkin posted on twitter?