geocode-glib is a convenience library for the geocoding (finding longitude,
and latitude from an address) and reverse geocoding (finding an address from
coordinates). It uses Nominatim service to achieve that. It also caches
(reverse-)geocoding requests for faster results and to avoid unnecessary server
load.
Requirements
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geocode-glib requires json-glib, gio and libsoup to compile and run.
Applications using geocode-glib
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- Empathy
- Evolution
Links
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Nominatim API:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim
Geocoding:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocoding
Reverse-Geocoding:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_geocoding
Dwayne Hart
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