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Re: What about Reverse Geocoding?

From: Andrei Popescu <andreip@google.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 19:03:18 +0000
Message-ID: <708552fb0811061103w7fd77c55k3c88c435dc83dfb1@mail.gmail.com>
To: Greg Bolsinga <bolsinga@apple.com>
Cc: public-geolocation <public-geolocation@w3.org>

Hi Greg,

FYI, here's the story so far:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-geolocation/2008Jun/0057.html
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-geolocation/2008Jun/0079.html
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-geolocation/2008Jun/0094.html

Gears' implementation of Geolocation API has an extension that
provides reverse-geocoding:

http://code.google.com/apis/gears/api_geolocation.html#positionoptions
http://code.google.com/apis/gears/api_geolocation.html#address

Andrei

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Greg Bolsinga <bolsinga@apple.com> wrote:
>
> Hello --
>
> I don't see anything in the spec mentioning reverse geocoding. Google Maps
> has a JSON based interface that many other sites seem to use. Is there any
> proposal for a JavaScript API my quick Google search didn't find?
>
> Thanks,
> -- Greg
>
>
>
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