Google Maps Workshop

This is a special project that demonstrates the use of the Google Maps API, along with a Reverse Geocode Toolbox. You can use the following tool to look up addresses, get more information about the locality, download extremely precise GPS POI files (for your GPS device or Google Earth), and get a precise, customized link to Google Maps.

This is a SourceForge project that is available as a Subversion repository here.

This uses two different reverse geocode services. The default service is the GeoNames Project Reverse Geocode. It is a US-only service, but is fairly complete. It has some accuracy issues when it comes to street address numbers, but is pretty good. The second is Nico Goeminne's Reverse Google Geocoder. It seems to be more accurate at street level, and is worldwide, but uses multiple Google Maps lookups, which means that it can use up the quota assigned to maps keys. For this reason, it is not my default implementation.

(This is using The GeoNames Reverse GeoCode.)

Follow this link to use Nico Goeminne's Reverse Google GeoCode