TinyGeo-coder : A cool free geocoding/reverse geocoding service
February 9th, 2009 Posted in Web Service
I was searching for a free and easy to use geocoding web service over the internet for my experiment involving Location Based Service (LBS). Then suddenly i came accross tinygeocoder, a web service which really suits my need.
tinygeocoder services that caught my eye :
- geocoding – you can feed it with name of place like “San Francisco, CA” and it will return result in latitude and longitude pair “(37.775196,-122.419204)”
- reverse geocoding – feed it with a coordinate, and the service will return you the name of the corresponding place.
Personally I like the “reverse geocoding” functionality more as it would be handy for my LBS project. Keep an eye for this blog as I’ll be posting JavaME JSR-179 (Location API) codes which utilizes tinygeocoder services.
p/s: If you find tinygeoder helpful, consider making donations to them.
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February 23rd, 2009 at 5:00 am
[...] I’ve completed the JSR-179 Location API code for reverse geocoding in JavaME. This code essentially is an expansion of the previous JSR-179 example that i’ve posted in the blog before, plus the Reverse-Geocoding feature, thanks to TinyGeocoder service. [...]
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Mypapit, I just wanted to drop by and thank you for your links and kind words. I recently updated the blog at http://tinygeocoder.com/blog to let you (and everyone else) know that you’ve made the service a huge hit. It’s received over 13 million queries in about 6 months time, and that’s truly amazing to me.
Again, thank you. (and as a side note, your blog has been #4 in sending traffic to the service, so I had to say “thanks” for that too).
Cheers.
April 12th, 2010 at 10:14 am
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