Re: What about Reverse Geocoding?

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
>
>
>

Received on Thursday, 6 November 2008 19:04:26 UTC