On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 5:43 AM, Paul Norman <penor...@mac.com> wrote: > Nominatim is the standard way to do reverse geocoding.
Nominatim is good for both geocoding and reverse geocoding. It powers both the search and the "Where am I" functions on the main site. > If you want to do > geocoding (telling you the name of where you are) That's actually reverse geocoding. Geocoding is the process of creating a "geocode" - i.e. lat/lon - for a given input string. Think of it as "encoding". Reverse geocoding - aka decoding the geocode, means you start with a lat/lon and you want to "decode" that into a string. If find neither term particularly self-explanatory, nor easy to remember which is which! Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
