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.
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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 :)
I have a list of a couple thousand addresses and I would like to find the Longitude and Latitude of each one. I know I can use websites such as google maps to individually search the geolocations, but I would like to know how to make one massive input of all the addresses(such as putting them all in one array) and get an array that returns the Longitude and Latitude of each in perhaps a corresponding array.
I know Java fairly well but no other languages.
I would prefer detailed instructions or coding that would allow me to do the actions described above.
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The company I work for has an Excel plug-in for address geocoding, no programming required:
https://www.yaddress.net/Home/Excel
SmartyStreets (disclaimer: I work for them) has a list tool specifically built for excel style address data. You can easily paste in your excel data of addresses and the list tool will verify each address as well as return information like the latitude and longitude. You can try it out here.
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 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.
General geocoding is not problem. I can put in a city or stae or what ever specific location and usually geocode correctly using Bing. What I cant do is geocode things like intersections or fuzzy locations. My example is "I25 and Colorado blvd". In the Bing Maps site, this has no problem finding exactly what I am looking for. When I use geocode or the bing maps search nothing is found. Anyone have any clues how I can do something like this?
You could start by adding the state and country name in the query.
Also, I assume you're using VEMap.Find, so you may want to try calling the Locations API directly (especially as Find is no longuer available in the most recent version of the Ajax API):
It might give a more explicit error message to help understand why it doesn't return a position.