Tip #872 Reverse geocode with bash
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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