Question

I am trying to reverse geocode my location using google maps to retrieve my current location’s street name and perhaps postal code. I tried out many projects that used locality but i think my country always causes it to return a null(I am from Singapore).

Using XML, i am kinda unsure how am i suppose to parse the file i got from Google maps.

serverAddress = new URL("http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=" + Double.toString(loc.getLatitude()) + "," + Double.toString(loc.getLongitude()) +
"&output=xml&oe=utf8&sensor=true&key=Hidden");

Can anyone give me a direction here to move towards? Should i use the Document function to save and then proceed with SAX to parse the file?

Answer 1

try this:

    String urlStr = "http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=" + lat + "," + lon + "&output=json&sensor=false";
  String response = "";
  List<Address> results = new ArrayList<Address>();
  HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();

  Log.d("ReverseGeocode", urlStr);
  try {
         HttpResponse hr = client.execute(new HttpGet(urlStr));
         HttpEntity entity = hr.getEntity();

         BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(entity.getContent()));

         String buff = null;
         while ((buff = br.readLine()) != null)
            response += buff;
          } catch (IOException e) {
              e.printStackTrace();
       }

for more detail for ReverseGeocode see this example