[ddj] Reverse Geocoding Country: Best Practice

[Sam Leon]

I'd like to know the answer to this too.

Don't have time to try any of this out right now, but it does appear that
Google Apps Scripts offer a reverse geocoding function that could be run
within a sheet to return approximate addresses for a set of coordinates:

https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/maps/geocoder

There is also a similar question on Stack Overflow with one answer that
might be useful:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13869828/reverse-geocode-in-google-docs



On 11 November 2014 11:47, Matthew Linares <matthewlinares at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I have a table which includes latitude/longitude values but no clean
> country location. I'm presently fiddling with the Google sheets IMPORTXML
> method to get a plain country field:
>
> http://schoolofdata.org/handbook/recipes/geocoding/
>
> ...which is a bit untidy due to xPath selection on the resulting XML.
>
> Does anyone know a slicker tool or method to achieve this? I did start by
> loading the data into mapping apps and seeing if they exported with country
> data but nothing I found did that.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt​​
>
>
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