Got a giant list of GPS coordinates, want to see them on a map? How about retrieving address data for your coordinates? Below you can quickly take a list of latitude and longitude coordinates and quickly map them as well as retrieve address data. After your done you can save the map to its own web page for future use, or dump the results out to Google Earth. The process is called Reverse Geocoding and it uses the Google Maps engine to retrieve the data and display the map using the best data available. This tool is free for you to use!
Save Map to a Web Page / Print
Enter a short title for your map, what is it?
If you select "Unlisted" your map will be saved to a unique URL that will be kept private to you, it will not be listed anywhere on the site. You can read up on map privacy on our blog.
Enter this in case you want to delete your map later.
What could I use this for?
Find Address Data for your GPS Coordinates - Copy coordinate data directly from spreadsheet program such as Excel or the free equivalent OpenOffice Calc.
Create direct mailings based off of map coordinates - Use your list of latitude and longitude coordinates to create address data for a mass mailings.
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What is reverse geocoding?
Reverse Geocoding, is the process of taking a map coordinate and identifying a steet address or real world name for that location.
Why is this reverse geocoder unique?
Our batch reverse geocoder allows you to quickly take a large list of map coordinates and turn them into address information. We don't know of any other batch reverse geocoders on the internet!
What about getting a mailing address from a map coordinates?
This should be possible if the Google Maps data is accurate enough. It requires the map coordinate to fall directly on the building / parcel, and Google to have parcel level data in that area. Parcel data is available for many U.S. cities and that dataset is growing all the time. I would look for address results that do not contain an address range (ie: 100-200) and you should be able to get specific enough data that you can perform direct mailings using the resulting data. Looking at the Google Maps API, accuracy of at least a level 8 would be required.
Data Coverage
Street level geocoding is available in United States, Canada, and the following European Countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, England, France, Finland, Germany, United Kingdom (UK), Luxembourg, Netherlands, Ireland, Norway, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Wales, and Italy. Country, State, and City level geocoding is available for Europe, Asia, Central and South America. We expect Yahoo! will continue to expand coverage of their street level data to the rest of the world soon, keep checking back! The name of the coordinate system used is WGS84, this is the decimal degrees version of the coordinate system commonly used in GPS devices.