How to reverse geocode without Google?

reverse-geocoding
jessegavin picture jessegavin · Aug 18, 2010 · Viewed 50.6k times · Source

Are there any web services (paid or free) out there besides the Google Maps API which allow you to reverse geocode?

My particular application will have access to a latitude and longitude and I need to be able to get the US Zip Code or State.

The reason I can't use Google is that the Terms of Service seems to indicate that if you use Google Maps API, you need to use the data to display a Google map.

I am using C# .Net framework in case that's relevant.

Answer

WoodyDRN picture WoodyDRN · Aug 2, 2013

I use http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org for reverse lookups, it's very easy to use:

http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/reverse?format=json&lat=54.9824031826&lon=9.2833114795&zoom=18&addressdetails=1

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