Google Geolocation API - Use longitude and latitude to get address in textbox?

Question

I have noticed a lot of information about how to get your location using Google geolocation looks, based on IP address. But I am wondering if and how I could use this service t

Answer 1

What you describe is called Reverse Geocoding. Google provides a Geocoding Web Service API which you can call from your server-side application (using any language) to do reverse geocoding.

For example, the following request:

http://maps.google.com/maps/api/geocode/xml?latlng=40.714224,-73.961452&sensor=false

... will return a response that looks like the following (truncated):

 
 OK 
  
  street_address 
  277 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211, USA 
   
   277 
   277 
   street_number 
   
   
   Bedford Ave 
   Bedford Ave 
   route 
   
   
   Brooklyn 
   Brooklyn 
   sublocality 
   political 
   
   
   New York 
   New York 
   locality 
   political 
   
   
   Kings 
   Kings 
   administrative_area_level_2 
   political 
   
   
   New York 
   NY 
   administrative_area_level_1 
   political 
   
   
   United States 
   US 
   country 
   political 
   
   
   11211 
   11211 
   postal_code 
   
   
    
    40.7142330 
    -73.9612910 
    
   ROOFTOP 
    
     
     40.7110854 
     -73.9644386 
     
     
     40.7173806 
     -73.9581434 
     
    
   
  
 

However be aware that the Google Maps API Terms of Use seem to prohibit the storage of the results, unless the store acts as a cache for data that will used in Google Maps. You may want to get in touch with Google and enquire on the Google Maps API Premier to have more flexible terms of use for your geocoding requirements.