maps.huge.info wrote: > The reverse geocoder at http://maps.huge.info/reverse.htm is now > complete and covers the continental US, Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico.
Very nice! One thing... I reverse-located a couple points, which resulted in a total of four "close guesses". Then I clicked one of the guesses for the second address and it popped up a bubble on one of the guesses for the first point. Clicking any of the four guesses results in a balloon over one of the guesses for the first point.
> maps.huge.info wrote: > > The reverse geocoder athttp://maps.huge.info/reverse.htmis now > > complete and covers the continental US, Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico.
> > -John
> >http://maps.huge.infoVery nice! One thing... I reverse-located a couple points, which > resulted in a total of four "close guesses". Then I clicked one of the > guesses for the second address and it popped up a bubble on one of the > guesses for the first point. Clicking any of the four guesses results > in a balloon over one of the guesses for the first point.
If I could find the data for other countries I would give it a shot. Right now, this data is based on the USPS Zip+4 AIS product, so it is a bit specialized. The plan for the moment is to leave it as it is, except for updates every month.
I would like to know if you could make the pop-up baloon display the address rather than having to click a button outside of the map to get this data.
One good aplication I see for this is, if like me, uploaded images already have GPS co-ordinates inbedded in them and auto-plot themselves on the map. Then using your database the location information is automatically entered into the images metadata so that having to type in the address is eliminated from the tagging process.
maps.huge.info wrote: > The reverse geocoder at http://maps.huge.info/reverse.htm is now > complete and covers the continental US, Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico.
The blue point on the map is the calculated position of the address and if you click on that, it will (or should) open an infowindow to the address requested.
Also, there is a SOAP interface that will return the address along with the calculated point and the distance from the original point entered. Try that and see if it works for your application.
I see you are in the UK. My reverse geocoder only has data for the US and Puerto Rico.
I see that once the icons turn blue they do indeed return the address info in the pop-up infowindow. The thing is the marker still requires the user to press the "Submit Point" external button to check the address, otherwise it stays green and only displays the GPS co-ordinates, its not automatically searching. That's what I meant before.
Thanks for your reply and the advice about the SOAP interface, the problem is I do not program and although I have heard of SOAP it really doesn't mean much to me, no way am I going to be able to do anything like that. But I would like to know if what you were saying was in response to my question about adding meta-data to an image:
Basically uploading an image with GPS co-ordinates already imbedded (like Flickr), having the map-mashup/app interrogate the file for GPS data and then retrieving the street name or building name of that point as your map does and imbedding it into the file?
Yes I do live in the UK, I don't suppose you are going to extend your map to cover, say, oh I don't know - the whole world. Sure, everybody has asked that of you and I'm sure you can't do it all. I don't know why Google don't give you a bit of money, a team and an office so you can do it for them.
Anyway well done, really good to see this, I hope you get the rest of the US covered so that even if clicking provides a green marker it can be attributed to "Fred's Farmland, contact 0207... to plant some crops here"
> The blue point on the map is the calculated position of the address and > if you click on that, it will (or should) open an infowindow to the > address requested.
> Also, there is a SOAP interface that will return the address along with > the calculated point and the distance from the original point entered. > Try that and see if it works for your application.
> I see you are in the UK. My reverse geocoder only has data for the US > and Puerto Rico.
Yes, I would put in a vote for Google to maybe open a branch office in Olive Branch, MS with me running the show. They could get good people who could live well on a low salary, that's for sure. This is one of the cheapest places in the country to live, hands down.
As for interfacing with Flickr, I'm not sure how they do their sites, so I can't comment on that. I don't see any technical problems integrating pictures with reverse geocoded data.
