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Reverse Geocoding Is Hard

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/04/reverse-geocoding-is-hard/

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Reverse Geocoding is Hard

My wife and I run OpenBenches - a crowd-sourced database of nearly 40,000 memorial benches. Every bench is geo-tagged with a latitude and longitude. But how do you go from a string of digits to something human readable? How do I turn -33.755780,150.603769 into "42 Wallaby Way, Sydney, Australia"? Luckily, that's a (somewhat) solved problem. Services like OpenCage, StadiaMaps, OpenStreetMap, and Geocode.Earth all provide APIs which transform co-ordinates into addresses. Done! Let's go home. …

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Johanna JokioJun 22, 2023
I’m thinking of making an #rshiny app with maps of data on #latinamerica. Suggest me some open data sources (perhaps around health, wellbeing, etc human indicators)?
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Dan Fernandez  Nov 11, 2022

I have always found map datasets to be super interesting. There is an increasing number of use cases for mapping, self-driving vehicles is a logical driver for more advanced mapping. Market concentration doesn’t always benefit consumers. Interesting to see what appears to be interesting competition. Google Maps is very comprehensive and powerful but it’s still largely proprietary.

https://www.tomtom.com/newsroom/behind-the-map/the-future-of-mapmaking-tomtom-maps-platform/

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