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Getting Latitude and Longitude Coordinates

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  • 13-07-2006 10:25pm
    #1
    cousin_borat
    Registered Users Posts: 995 ✭✭✭


    Hello all,

    I wish to use Google Maps to show dealer locations for our company. All of the address data is stored in a database form. However to use the Google Map API or Google Earth I need to also have the Latitude/Longitude coordinates.

    I have found one subscription site that has a web service that gives this data. Anyone else have any other suggestions?

    Regards


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    #2
    RadioRetro
    Registered Users Posts: 2,090 ✭✭✭RadioRetro


    In the View menu click on 'Lat/Lon Grid' to overlay and you can get the co-ordinates there.


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    cousin_borat
    Registered Users Posts: 995 ✭✭✭cousin_borat


    Thanks RadioRetry. That means that I would have to do this manually for potentially hundreds of dealer locations. What Im hoping for is some sort of web service out there that I could call with the address details as a parameter. This would return the lat/long which I could add to the database record for each address.


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    trap4
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 468 ✭✭trap4


    Probably not exactly what you're looking for but perhaps you could scrape/script it to do more of what you need - http://www.geonames.org


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