Finding City and Zip Code for a Location

Posted by Kristopher Johnson on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Kristopher Johnson
Published on 2008-08-27T19:24:18Z Indexed on 2010/06/05 20:12 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 195

Filed under:

mapping

|

maps

|

gis

|

location

|

geocoding

Given a latitude and longitude, what is the easiest way to find the name of the city and the US zip code of that location.

(This is similar to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23572/latitude-longitude-database, except I want to convert in the opposite direction.)

Related question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/158557/get-street-address-at-latlong-pair

© Stack Overflow or respective owner

Related posts about mapping

How to deploy jBPM 3.2.2 console on Oracle 10g iAS

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
Hi! Does anybody have experience regarding deployment of the jBPM Administration Console on Oracle 10g iAS? I successfully deployed it using an .ear, security mappings working, I can even login to the console, Hibernate finds the JNDI datasource but it cannot find the TransactionManager. I see… >>> More
Entity Association Mapping with Code First Part 1 : Mapping Complex Types

as seen on ASP.net Weblogs - Search for 'ASP.net Weblogs'
Last week the CTP5 build of the new Entity Framework Code First has been released by data team at Microsoft. Entity Framework Code-First provides a pretty powerful code-centric way to work with the databases. When it comes to associations, it brings ultimate flexibility. I’m a big fan of the EF Code… >>> More
ODI 12c's Mapping Designer - Combining Flow Based and Expression Based Mapping

as seen on Oracle Blogs - Search for 'Oracle Blogs'
post by David Allan ODI is renowned for its declarative designer and minimal expression based paradigm. The new ODI 12c release has extended this even further to provide an extended declarative mapping designer. The ODI 12c mapper is a fusion of ODI's new declarative designer with the familiar… >>> More
Start a Mapping or Process Flow from OWB Browser

as seen on Oracle Blogs - Search for 'Oracle Blogs'
Basically, we start a Mapping or Process Flow from Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB) Design Client. But actually we can also start a Mapping or Process Flow from OWB Browser. This paper will introduce the Start Report first and then introduce how to start/rerun a Mapping or Process Flow from OWB Browser… >>> More
How to parse SOAP response from ruby client?

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
Hi I am learning Ruby and I have written the following code to find out how to consume SOAP services: require 'soap/wsdlDriver' wsdl="http://www.abundanttech.com/webservices/deadoralive/deadoralive.wsdl" service=SOAP::WSDLDriverFactory.new(wsdl).create_rpc_driver weather=service.getTodaysBirthdays('1/26/2010') The… >>> More

Related posts about maps

Easily use google maps, openstreet maps etc offline.

as seen on Geeks with Blogs - Search for 'Geeks with Blogs'
I did it and i am going to explain step by step. The explanatination may appear long but its simple if you follow. Note: All the softwares i have used are the latest and i have packaged them and provided them in the link below. I use Nokia N96 1) RootSign smartComGPS and install it on your phone(i… >>> More
add shapes to bing maps from locations stored in a database (bing maps ajax control)

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
I am trying to use the Bing Maps Ajax Control to plot pins of locations stored in a database to the bing map on a web page. All the locations are geocoded and the lat longs stored in the database. I am using ASP.NET (C#), but can't figure out or find any tutorials on how to go about doing this. All… >>> More
JSF and usage of gdata maps or js maps api

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
Hi, I am building jsf component for map servers and I was wondering if it is possible to use gdata maps api to update or retrieve new map which isn' t user map or i have to create Javascript binding for JSF. Regards Jan >>> More
Why does Internet Explorer break "pegman" display in Google Maps API v3?

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
On my site here, the SteetView control, aka "Pegman", works great under Firefox. Under IE (7 in this case, but tested on 8 as well - same result) it breaks the display of the pegman control. Here's my map code: var directionsDisplay; var directionsService = new google.maps.DirectionsService(); var… >>> More
Alternative to google map api, so that I can use it on a HTTPS/SSL encrypted website.

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
I did find a solution for this on Google map api page, and I made the following changes as mentioned in it. 1.Use Google Maps API for Flash version 1.9a or later. 2.Add the following to your Flash application before the map is instantiated: Security.allowInsecureDomain("maps.googleapis.com"); Ref:http://code… >>> More