geocode-glib

geocode-glib is a convenience library for the geocoding (finding longitude, and latitude from an address) and reverse geocoding (finding an address from coordinates). It uses Nominatim service to achieve that. It also caches (reverse-)geocoding requests for faster results and to avoid unnecessary server load.

Requirements

geocode-glib requires json-glib, gio and libsoup to compile and run.

While geocode-glib can be compiled against libsoup version 2.x or version 3.x, as those versions can't cohabit in the same binary, you will need to choose which one your application will support, especially if geocode-glib isn't a direct dependency. Version 1.0 of the geocode-glib API only supports libsoup 2.x, version 2.0 (and later) of the API will only support libsoup 3.x.

Applications and libraries using geocode-glib

• Empathy
• Evolution
• Clocks
• Maps
• Photos
• gramps
• libgweather
• gnome-initial-setup
• gnome-settings-daemon

Links

Nominatim API: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim

Geocoding: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocoding

Reverse-Geocoding: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_geocoding