It so happens that you know the exact road directions for reaching a particular point in the city but have no clue about the postal address of that place.
There’s now some help at hand in the form of Google Maps. Just click any point on the Google Map and this mashup will show you the rough snail address of that place.
For best results, search for the street name, city or zip code in Hybrid mode, zoom in as much as possible and then click the point whose address you are looking for.
This is possible due to the reverse geocoding feature that was introduced in Google Maps today. When you click a point on the map, the latitude and longitude co-ordinates of that place are translated into an address which is what you see on the map.
The location mashup is based on the sample code provided by Google API team but enhanced with a search function. Picture: flickr
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/find-exact-address-on-world-map/5083/
Tags: feature, google maps, mashup, travellers, Internet
Reader Comments
Google Maps is all right, but I really wish Live Maps got its own reverse geocoding feature. It’d be so useful.
Written by Quikboy on 10.24.08
What would be a cool addition would be a way to correct it… Maybe draw a border around a particular address to define it. It would probably only be useful if Google initiated it. When I looked up my work, I got ~10 different addresses by clicking on our building.
Written by Chris on 10.24.08