Ask HN: What are some good tools for converting GPS data into a location name?

Re:Ask HN: What are some good tools for converting GPS data ... by gspyrou on Wednesday December 26, 2012 @04:44PM (#4971074)

Try using Google maps reverse geocoding https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/#...

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Re:Ask HN: What are some good tools for converting GPS data ... by Devlin_Donnelly on Wednesday December 26, 2012 @05:59PM (#4971410)

Thanks for the idea, but apparently google only allows the use this service in conjunction with Google maps, so it won't work for my project.

Maybe there are some open source map databases of GPS coordinates mapped to political/municipal localities?

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Re:Ask HN: What are some good tools for converting GPS data ... by bartonfink on Wednesday December 26, 2012 @06:13PM (#4971451)

MapQuest offers a geocoding service which doesn't tie you to MapQuest's maps the way Google does. It's free up to some usage amount (I think it's 5k requests a day). You can see more here:

http://www.mapquestapi.com/geocoding/

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Re:Ask HN: What are some good tools for converting GPS data ... by Devlin_Donnelly on Wednesday December 26, 2012 @06:37PM (#4971540)

Thanks it looks like this one might work for my needs.

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