Question Webservice to get geo codes

[philippoommen1]

Hi,

I would like to populate a temp-table with latitude and longitude when I pass a place name to it. Is there any web service available.
Def temp-table tfDestinations
FIELD NameDest AS CHAR
FIELD LatDest AS DEC
FIELD LongDest AS DEC.

TIA
-Philip-

 

[lee.bourne]

Hi,

I would like to populate a temp-table with latitude and longitude when I pass a place name to it. Is there any web service available.
Def temp-table tfDestinations
FIELD NameDest AS CHAR
FIELD LatDest AS DEC
FIELD LongDest AS DEC.

TIA
-Philip-

Try typing "geocode webservice" into Google. The first response is:
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/

 

[LarryD]

The problem with google is that while free, the TOS is very restrictive as to use. And many of the other free ones are limited as to how many queries you can perform over a period of time.

There are a number of paid services (as noted, Google search is your friend here).

For our customers, we found the open source Data Science Toolkit works nicely ( http://www.datasciencetoolkit.org/ ). It's not perfect, but performs the lat/long calculations close enough for our requirements.

 

[Cecil]

You could write your own Private WebService/AppServer using the data from geonames.org and load the data into a database. The FREE data does seam to be fully rich.

Or they do have a WebServices which Finds the nearest points of interests for a given lat/lng pair.

References:
http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/
http://api.geonames.org/findNearbyPOIsOSM?lat=37.451&lng=-122.18&username=demo

 

[Cecil]

Just reviewed your question I made a small mistake.

This will give you the Lon/Lat for the search result for "London".
http://api.geonames.org/search?q=london&maxRows=10&username=demo