Question

is any way (with a rest API will be awesome) to get the Street name corresponding to a Geographical coordinate? I think the name is geocoding, do google have this API? Im PHP developer.

Ex.

<?php 
cor="38.115583,13.37579";
echo(geoname(cor)); // this prints: Foro Umberto I - 90133 Palermo  
?>

So the output of the function is the street name, the postal code and the city. Thanks for any help and scripts examples!

Answer 1

Yes, just use the “Reverse Geocoding” function in the Google Maps API: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/geocoding/#ReverseGeocoding

Here’s some example code:

$lat="38.115583";
$long = "13.37579";

$url = "http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?latlng=$lat,$long&sensor=false";

$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_ENCODING, "");
$curlData = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);

$address = json_decode($curlData);
print_r($address);