November 2008 Archives
Tiny Geo-coder | The fastest way to find latitude and longitude
When I created a Garmin POI file with all the Yamaha dealers in the US (and a separate file for Canada), I needed a way to convert a street address (or even just a city name) into latitude and longitude.
At the time, the sites that provided this conversion had restrictions that limited how many look-ups you could do in a set period of time. This forced me to put together a wonderful piece of Perl code that did a round-robin http proxy, so I could then scrape out the data I really needed.
Now, Tiny Geo Coder does the conversions, with no restrictions and with a useful API. Plus, it has a nice tie-in with the Google Maps API. Good stuff.
From the National Geographic:
Uphill Rush
