Reverse geocode with bash

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The following bash script, which depends on lynx web browser, uses Google's reverse geocode service to find a nearby address given a latitude and longitude pair:

#!/bin/bash
# findnearest
# Usage: findnearest latitude longitude
# Ex.  findnearest  17.976227 -66.111016

lat=$1
long=$2
result=$(lynx -dump "http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?output=csv&oe=utf-8&ll=$lat,$long")
echo $result | cut -f3- -d,

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Coornail

Modified a bit to work with wget:

#!/bin/bash
# findnearest
# Usage: findnearest latitude longitude
# Ex. findnearest 17.976227 -66.111016
lat=$1
long=$2
wget -q "http://maps.google.com/maps/ge … f-8&ll=$lat,$long" -O -|cut -f3- -d,

Posted 2009-08-19 10:38:36

Omar

@Coornail: thanks for the wget-version. it's nicer to look at.

Posted 2009-08-19 14:43:35

Pleurastic

Only located city. Should I have expected a street address? Fun stuff here at shell-fu.org

Posted 2009-08-27 12:15:31

Erich

exec 3<>/dev/tcp/maps.google.com/80
echo -e "GET /maps/geo?output=csv&oe=utf8&ll=$lat,$long HTTP/1.1\n\n">&3
cat <&3

Posted 2009-12-01 12:33:50

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