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

You may want to have look at Tiger data and see if it has polygons containing the county name in an attribute. If it does the Java Geotools API lets you work with this data. You will be performing point in polygon queries for the county polygons followed by a feature attribute look-up.