Finding nearest street given a lat-long location

Question

Is there any such API where given a location (in terms of latlong), I could find whether the given point is on road/street or not. And if possible also gives me nearest stre

Answer 1

Google maps api provides reverse Geocoding api, you need to pass lat and long values to get address

http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?latlng=40.714224,-73.961452&sensor=true_or_false

Check this http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/geocoding/#JSON

Answer 2

Much simpler with OSRM (nearest) webservice. Look at my answer here:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/30403046/4640499

Answer 3

You can use the Google Maps Geocoding API which does exactly that: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/intro

Take a look at the "Reverse Geocoding" section.