Verify if a point is Land or Water in Google Maps

Question

..and then Google-maps \"divide the waters from the waters\"

Well, not in the biblical sense but..

I would like to know what options I have in order to verif

Answer 1

I would recommend rolling your own here. You can use tools like GDAL to query the contents under a point in a shapefile. You can get shapefiles for US geography from many sources including the US Census Bureau.

This can be done via GDAL binaries, the source C, or via swig in Java, Python, and more.

Census Maps

GDAL Information

Point Query Example in Python