Is it possible to get an address from coordinates using google maps?

Question

I\'m just curious. Maybe for a future project. I want to know if it\'s possible to retrieve an address from a giving coordinate via the Google API.

Answer 1

TomTom Maps APIs provides with a Reverse Geocoding end point which gives a structured JSON.

You can try it with the API Explorer.

For example :

curl -X GET "https://api.tomtom.com/search/2/reverseGeocode/37.8328,-122.27669.json?key=*****" -H "accept: */*"

Will get you

{
  "summary": {
    "queryTime": 6,
    "numResults": 1
  },
  "addresses": [
    {
      "address": {
        "buildingNumber": "1001",
        "streetNumber": "1001",
        "routeNumbers": [],
        "street": "42nd Street",
        "streetName": "42nd Street",
        "streetNameAndNumber": "1001 42nd Street",
        "countryCode": "US",
        "countrySubdivision": "CA",
        "countrySecondarySubdivision": "Alameda",
        "countryTertiarySubdivision": "Oakland",
        "municipality": "Oakland, Emeryville",
        "postalCode": "94608",
        "municipalitySubdivision": "Oakland, Emeryville",
        "country": "United States",
        "countryCodeISO3": "USA",
        "freeformAddress": "1001 42nd Street, Emeryville, CA 94608",
        "boundingBox": {
          "northEast": "37.832893,-122.276230",
          "southWest": "37.832777,-122.277006",
          "entity": "position"
        },
        "countrySubdivisionName": "California",
        "localName": "Emeryville"
      },
      "position": "37.832844,-122.276688"
    }
  ]
}

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