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Re: [gpsd-users] location lookup


From: Gary E. Miller
Subject: Re: [gpsd-users] location lookup
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:22:49 -0700

Yo Yan!

On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:15:58 -0700 (PDT)
"Yan Seiner" <address@hidden> wrote:

> I'd like to add a "near to location" tag.  I can find a lot of
> utilities that use a web interface to show location on a map; I am
> looking for a standalone utility along with a database that can look
> up towns and geographic features and return a distance and direction
> to a nearby landmark.

Try the USGS Domestic names database.

http://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/

records look like this:

1126970|Silver 
Lake|Flat|OR|41|Harney|025|432200N|1192421W|43.3665409|-119.4057806|||||1256|4121|Iron
 Mountain Flat|11/28/1980|
1126971|Silver Lake|Populated 
Place|OR|41|Lake|037|430741N|1210246W|43.127918|-121.0461084|||||1325|4347|Silver
 Lake|11/28/1980|01/29/2011

> For example, when given 42.914061,-121.030884 it would return "8 Miles
> South of Silver Lake, OR".

Wow, pretty near me right now.

RGDS
GARY
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