Find County name for a Lat/Long

Question

I\'m trying to find a webservice that will allow me to get a County name (not Country) for a specific Lat/Long. I would be performing the lookup within a server application (li

Answer 1

Maybe this is a great solution.It is in a json format.I always use this in my projects.

http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?ll=10.345561,123.896932

And simply extract the information using php.

$x = file_get_contents("http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?ll=10.345561,123.896932");

$j_decodex = json_decode($x);

print_r($j_decodex);