How to use it
- Paste the coordinates in any format, or press My location, or click the map.
- Read the nearest address and its parts: street, city, county, state, postcode, country.
- Drag the pin to look somewhere else.
- For a list, switch to Batch, paste one pair per line, and download the CSV.
5 practical uses
- Turn a photo's GPS tag into the place it was taken.
- Find the address of a point clicked on a map.
- Check where a vehicle tracker, a beacon or a drone was.
- Convert a spreadsheet of coordinates to addresses for a mailing.
- Identify a location given only as latitude and longitude in a report.
The maths behind it
Reverse geocoding reads the map tile under the point: the nearest house number within 60 m and the nearest named street within 150 m, then the locality and the city by the nearest place, and the county, state and country from boundary polygons. The distance from the pin to the match comes back with the answer, so a point in a field says how far the nearest road is.
What comes back
The nearest thing the map knows at that point: a house number and street in a town, a road, or a village in the countryside. The parts (locality, city, county, state, postcode, country) are the places and boundaries around the point; the postcode is the nearest postcode centre. The distance from the pin to the match is part of the answer.
Addresses are looked up with Waymorphic Map's own address lookup on the tile domain, built from the same OpenStreetMap data as the map, free and without a key. An address is only as good as the map: in a well-mapped town it is the door, in the countryside it may be the road or the village.