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Reverse Address Geocoding With Google Maps

Geocoding is the assignment of geographic coordinates to a location, typically one identified by name or address. I’ve covered address geocoding in an earlier post, in connection with converting US addresses to points in a KML file for use in Google Earth. Reverse address geocoding refers to finding the address closest to a set of geographic coordinates, and I’ve found a website/webservice that will do this for US addresses.

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Coordinate Data From Google Maps

One drawback of Google Maps is that it doesn’t give you position data for a particular spot, like latitude/longitude or UTM coordinates, unless you jump through some hoops. But I’ve found a site that makes determining point coordinates easy, and even allows you to export those coordinates into a file.

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