Find County name for a Lat/Long

Question

I\'m trying to find a webservice that will allow me to get a County name (not Country) for a specific Lat/Long. I would be performing the lookup within a server application (li

Answer 1

Just for completeness, I found another API to get this data that is quite simple, so I thought I'd share.

https://geo.fcc.gov/api/census/

The FCC provides an Block API for exactly this problem and it uses census data to perform the look up.

Their usage limit policy is (From developer@fcc.gov)

We do not have any usage limits for the block conversion API, but we do ask that you try to spread out your requests over time if you can.