[GraphHopper] Get Street name and Town name of a GPS point

[Peter K]

you can store the boundaries of the cities as well to make the matching 
more precise.
quattroshapes.com. geonames and also OSM (but this option is not easy) 
can help ...

Regards,
Peter.

> Thank you for your help,
>
> For the name of the street I was thinking to the same solution that
> Peter explain.
> So I will try this one.
>
> I cannot use online so sorry but I cannot use nominatim.
> Your proposition for use index of town seem interresting even if it
> will increase data space for the new data to store.
> And also town are not always rectangular and so some mistake on the
> town name can appear...
>
> Anyway for the moment I will implement the solution for the street
> name and I will later search for the town name.
>
> Thank you for your help Peter and Thomas.
>
> Max
>
>
> 2013/11/29 Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen <tfnico at gmail.com
> <mailto:tfnico at gmail.com>>
>
>     On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
>     <tfnico at gmail.com <mailto:tfnico at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Maxime Guyon <gmaxi17 at gmail.com
>     <mailto:gmaxi17 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     >>
>     >> Hello,
>     >>
>     >> I want to know if it's possible to get the name of the street
>     corresponding to a GPS point and if it's also possible to get the
>     corresponding Town of the street.
>
>     Well, now I just realized I totally misread your question :)
>
>     I would have a closer look at the response that the maps application
>     gets back from the geocoding service. For example, when I click in
>     Berlin somewhere, I see (using the browser's developer tools) that
>     this request is sent:
>
>     http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/reverse?lat=52.514807&lon=13.389947&format=json&zoom=16&json_callback=reverse_callback5&callback=reverse_callback5&_=1385716788366
>
>     And this response arrives:
>
>     reverse_callback5({"place_id":"45007684","licence":"Data \u00a9
>     OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0.
>     http:\/\/www.openstreetmap.org
>     <http://www.openstreetmap.org>\/copyright","osm_type":"way","osm_id":"35557143","lat":"52.5148644","lon":"13.3911125","display_name":"Franz\u00f6sische
>     Stra\u00dfe, Berliner Urstromtal, Mitte, Berlin, 10117, Germany,
>     European Union","address":{"road":"Franz\u00f6sische
>     Stra\u00dfe","neighbourhood":"Berliner
>     Urstromtal","suburb":"Mitte","city_district":"Mitte","city":"Berlin","state":"Berlin","postcode":"10117","country":"Germany","country_code":"de","continent":"European
>     Union"}})
>
>     So using JavaScript you should be able to extract all the
>     information you want.
>
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