Is there a way to find the nearest cross streets for an address?

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Janak picture Janak · Apr 10, 2010 · Viewed 26.2k times · Source

Using the google maps API is there a way to programmatically find the nearest cross streets, given a particular street address?

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Daniel Vassallo picture Daniel Vassallo · Apr 10, 2010

Unfortunately the Google Maps API does not provide methods to find the nearest intersection from a particular street address or coordinate. You may want to check the following posts for further reading:

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