[ale] OT - Latitude/Longitude Lookup

[Jay Lozier]

First thanks to all who replied. The answers got me pointed in the right  
direction and with some help from the python.org documentation got the  
problem solved.

I used the FCC API since it is free and it does give city, county, and  
state information.

On Fri, 05 Jul 2013 13:01:58 -0400, JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:

> 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?
>
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Jay Lozier
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