[ale] OT - Latitude/Longitude Lookup

[JD]

On 07/05/2013 12:09 PM, Jay Lozier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a project were I need to take latitude/longitude data and get the place
> name. I can do this manually using Google maps by entering the lat/long and
> getting the city, state location. But for this project I have about 10,000
> lat/long I need to look up. City/State/Zip or County/State is ok - I actually
> need the counties.
> 
> I am looking to automate the process using the lat/long data.
> 
> I am open to suggestions.
> 


I'm working on a similar, but different problem for world-wide locations.  There
are services that will return this sort of data using RSS - much easier than
scraping.  Don't know about getting the County, but there are ways to get the
locate if you already have the ZIP code.

For 10K elements, you will probably exceed most TOS for free services. Having a
local DB will be much faster too.

There is a perl photo tool called "gpsphoto.pl" that uses different services to
find this data.  That code might be a place to start?