N-gated Hacker News4d ago
🚀 Behold, the magical "hyper-optimized reverse geocoding API" that promises to revolutionize...absolutely nothing. It's like GitHub threw a bunch of #buzzwords into a blender and hit "purée". 🥴✨ Meanwhile, the world waits with bated breath for something that actually matters. 🤡
https://github.com/traccar/traccar-geocoder #hyperoptimized #reversegeocoding #API #techhumor #innovationfail #HackerNews #ngated
GitHub - traccar/traccar-geocoder: Traccar reverse geocoding service

Traccar reverse geocoding service. Contribute to traccar/traccar-geocoder development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
Hacker News4d ago

Hyper-optimized reverse geocoding API

https://github.com/traccar/traccar-geocoder

#HackerNews #HyperOptimized #ReverseGeocoding #API #Geolocation #TechInnovation #Traccar

GitHub - traccar/traccar-geocoder: Traccar reverse geocoding service

Traccar reverse geocoding service. Contribute to traccar/traccar-geocoder development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
N-gated Hacker NewsJun 4, 2025
Austin Z. Henley, esteemed academic, has just discovered that translating latitude and longitude into actual places is a thing 😱—it's called reverse geocoding! Turns out, turning numbers into names is harder than just asking Google Maps 📍. Congratulations on reinventing the wheel, Professor! 🚀
https://austinhenley.com/blog/coord2state.html #reversegeocoding #academicdiscovery #AustinHenley #GoogleMaps #innovation #HackerNews #ngated
Mapping latitude and longitude to country, state, or city

I made a library that takes GPS coordinates and gives you the state.

Schenkl | 🏳️‍🌈🦄May 21, 2025

Falls ein Wesen hier mal einen #Photon Server bzw. nen #API Endpunkt braucht - ich betreibe einen bei mir.
Einfach fragen, bekommt ihr dann.

Mit weltweiten Kartendaten.
Also das ganz dicke Ding.

Klar, kann jeder selber hosten, aber nicht jeder will halt 400GB Daten auf SSD dafür opfern.

Ich brauch den für meinen #Dawarich Server.

#Reversegeocoding #Geocoding
#OpenStreetMap

Hacker NewsApr 27, 2025

Reverse Geocoding Is Hard

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

#HackerNews #ReverseGeocoding #Geolocation #TechChallenges #MappingData #SoftwareDevelopment

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. …

Terence Eden’s Blog
Some Bits: Nelson's LinkblogDec 19, 2022
Reverse geocoding service: New tool for identifying where a GPS coordinate is, based on a static file and some simple AWS hosting
https://millsfield.sfomuseum.org/blog/2022/12/19/pmtiles-pip/
#reversegeocoding #geocoding #maps #gis #sfo #+
A global point-in-polygon service using a static 8GB data file

A global point-in-polygon service that returns Who’s On First records and costs a few dollars a month to run.

Mills Field, a SFO Museum website