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Ask HN: API to discover lat/long coordinates from a city name and country
Hi everyone, I have a list of city names say, all the cities in Germany, and I want to get lat/lng coordinates for each one of them.
Is there any API I can use to get this kind of data? Google and Foursquare did not seem to help with that
thanks for your time
UPDATE: you people are amazing, thanks for the responses!
- runlevel1 12y agoGoogle's Geocoding API does just that. Example: https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=Berlin&sensor=false
- rodrigoavie 12y agothanks! That is exactly what I was looking for!
- conductor 12y agoIt's called geocoding. There are several free services who provide API. Here are two of them from the first page of my search results: https://geoservices.tamu.edu/Services/Geocode/WebService/ https://geoservices.tamu.edu/Services/Geocode/WebService/ http://developer.mapquest.com/web/products/dev-services/geocoding-ws http://developer.mapquest.com/web/products/dev-services/geoc...
- rodrigoavie 12y agothank you so much!
- taurenk 12y agoGeonames.org has files containing zip code, city and, lat/lon: http://download.geonames.org/export/zip/ http://download.geonames.org/export/zip/ Hope this helps.
- rodrigoavie 12y agoSure it helps! Even if this database does not contain every city that I wanna check, it definitely helps. thank you very much