[ale] OT - Latitude/Longitude Lookup

[Jeff Hubbs]

It would be bad practice to depend on a mechanism you don't control or 
pay for, but I think the data you want might be obtainable from the USPS 
(which we do pay for, as a public good).  I recall that they had 
coordinates associated with zip codes at the very least.

On 7/5/13 1:24 PM, Jim Lynch wrote:
> On 07/05/2013 12:09 PM, Jay Lozier wrote:
>> I have a project were I need to take latitude/longitude data and get 
>> the place name. I can do this manually using Google maps by entering 
>> the lat/long and getting the city, state location. But for this 
>> project I have about 10,000 lat/long I need to look up. 
>> City/State/Zip or County/State is ok - I actually need the counties.
>>
>> I am looking to automate the process using the lat/long data.
> It's old but this might be a start.
>
> http://zips.sourceforge.net/
>
> The database is used more to get coordinates from zip codes, but a 
> talented programmer could do a pretty quick reverse lookup.
>
> Jim.
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