Finding whether two geo-coordinates lie on the same road

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Published on 2010-04-08T03:57:04Z Indexed on 2010/04/08 4:03 UTC
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Hi there, Given two geo-coordinates in (latitude,longitude) format, is it possible to find out if they lie on the same road? I want to do this programatically not visually. I can perhaps extract addresses and compare the street name, but since streets can change names over a long distance, this solution doesnt sem to work :( Cheers Amarsh

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