Looking for a good and free reverse geocoding API [closed]

Answer 1

OpenStreeMap has a reverse lookup tool too:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim#Reverse_Geocoding_.2F_Address_lookup

Example from link:

Query:

 http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/reverse?format=xml&lat=52.5487429714954&lon=-1.81602098644987&zoom=18&addressdetails=1

Result:

 <reversegeocode timestamp="Fri, 06 Nov 09 16:33:54 +0000" querystring="...">
   <result place_id="1620612" osm_type="node" osm_id="452010817">
     135, Pilkington Avenue, Wylde Green, City of Birmingham, West Midlands (county), B72, United Kingdom
   </result>
   <addressparts>
     <house>135</house>
     <road>Pilkington Avenue</road>
     <village>Wylde Green</village>
     <town>Sutton Coldfield</town>
     <city>City of Birmingham</city>
     <county>West Midlands (county)</county>
     <postcode>B72</postcode>
     <country>United Kingdom</country>
     <country_code>gb</country_code>
   </addressparts>   
 </reversegeocode>

Answer 2

The Yahoo Maps API may be able to help you out, because it offers the ability to set the precision.

Answer 3

You can try Bing Maps I don't know how accurate it is, but you can try it

http://dev.virtualearth.net/services/v1/geocodeservice/geocodeservice.asmx/ReverseGeocode?latitude=[NUMBER]&longitude=[NUMBER]&key=[MAPS_KEY]&culture=%22en-us%22&format=json

Answer 4

Try GeocodeFarm.

250 free queries daily per IP based but the web service is free for unlimited and the cheap $25 gives you 25,000 queries daily (which is what I use for my apps).

Results are easy to understand, thorough documentation, forward and reverse, etc.