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TinyGeo-coder : A cool free geocoding/reverse geocoding service
February 9th, 2009 4 Comments 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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