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Get latitude / longitude / Reverse Geocoding without displaying maps

Using a website, I am trying to capture user's latitude / longitude point and based on that grab his current address.

I am able to do this using Google Maps API: geolocation and Reverse GeoCoding. But, my requirement is to get this information without displaying the map. As far as I have read, Google Maps Term of Use prohibits such thing.

Can anyone let me know if there is any other service which can serve my purpose without displaying maps or does Google Maps allow such thing? I am not sure about Bing, Yahoo.

EDIT: On page load, I need to grab user's latitude and longitude and based on that get address information. I am planning to use this address information for displaying nearby locations/places to visit. I have to achieve this without displaying any map.

Solution

  • Yahoo PlaceFinder does it. If you pass through the latitude and longitude in the location parameter and gflags=R, it should return address data.

    You'll have to get a Yahoo APP id, but its free and pretty easy to set up.

    EDIT: I see you want to do geolocation too, if you can't use google I would investigate html5 geolocation and or use freegeoip.net to geolocate by ip address.