[OpenLayers-Users] Reverse Geocoding

[rmanor]

I understand.
so I need to find a reverse geocoding service?

- Ran


On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 19:22, Stephen Woodbridge (via Nabble) <
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> rmanor wrote:
> >
> > Is it possible to do reverse geocoding with OpenLayers (give
> > longitude/latitude and get street name/city name) ?
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> Yes, but you probably need a server side component to do the actual
> reverse geocoding. For example here is an application that I build:
>
> http://imaptools.com/maps2/tiger.html
>
> if you single click on the map is will reverse geocode that location and
> put the results in a marker. If you click the marker it will open with
> the xml results in it.
>
> The single click does an Ajax request back to my server to do the
> reverse geocoding and then create a marker and puts the xml text as the
> contents of the marker. One could just as easily parse the xml and put
> is in a more human readable form in the marker.
>
> You can look the the page source to see how I did the client side of this.
>
> -Steve Woodbridge
>   http://imaptools.com/
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