Finding City and Zip Code for a Location

Question

Given a latitude and longitude, what is the easiest way to find the name of the city and the US zip code of that location.

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Answer 1

Another reverse geocoding provider that hasn't been listed here yet is OpenStreetMap: you can use their Nominatim search service.

OSM has the (potentially?) added bonus of being entirely user editable (wiki-like) and thus having a very liberal licencing scheme of all this data. Think of this of open source map data.