[OSM-talk] Reverse look-up gazetteer

[Tom Carden]

2009/3/19 paul youlten <paul at yellowikis.org>:
> Does anyone know if there is there a web service that lets me take the
> latitude and longitude of a node and establish which country,
> state/county/province, city and Zip/post code the node is in?
>

Flickr has an API method that will do this to city level.
http://www.flickr.com/services/api/flickr.places.findByLatLon.html

I don't know if Yahoo's GeoPlanet API does this itself
http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/ but I think Flickr's method also
benefits from corrections Flickr's users make if they drop a photo in
a place and the assigned place name is wrong.

It's not OSM, but it sounds like what you want.

Tom.