Reverse Geocoding API
A dead simple reverse geocoding API for turning coordinates into human readable locations.

Reverse Geocode

$ curl https://geo-info.co/45.6479,-74.3451 
{
    "city": "Lachute",
    "community": "Lachute",
    "communityCode": "76020",
    "country": "CA",
    "county": "Laurentides",
    "countyCode": "15",
    "isCity": true,
    "latitude": 45.6501,
    "longitude": -74.3325,
    "nearbyCities": [
        {
            "city": "Chatham",
            "community": "",
            "communityCode": "",
            "country": "CA",
            "county": "",
            "countyCode": "",
            "isCity": true,
            "latitude": 45.6834,
            "longitude": -74.4159,
            "postalCode": "J8G",
            "state": "Quebec",
            "stateCode": "QC"
        },
        {
            "city": "Saint-Colomban",
            "community": "Saint-Colomban",
            "communityCode": "75005",
            "country": "CA",
            "county": "Laurentides",
            "countyCode": "15",
            "isCity": true,
            "latitude": 45.7334,
            "longitude": -74.1325,
            "postalCode": "J5K",
            "state": "Quebec",
            "stateCode": "QC"
        },
        {
            "city": "Mirabel Southwest",
            "community": "",
            "communityCode": "",
            "country": "CA",
            "county": "Mirabel",
            "countyCode": "",
            "isCity": true,
            "latitude": 45.6345,
            "longitude": -74.1005,
            "postalCode": "J7N",
            "state": "Quebec",
            "stateCode": "QC"
        },
        {
            "city": "Hawkesbury",
            "community": "",
            "communityCode": "",
            "country": "CA",
            "county": "",
            "countyCode": "",
            "isCity": true,
            "latitude": 45.6001,
            "longitude": -74.616,
            "postalCode": "K6A",
            "state": "Ontario",
            "stateCode": "ON"
        },
        {
            "city": "Saint-J\u00e9r\u00f4me West",
            "community": "Saint-J\u00e9r\u00f4me",
            "communityCode": "75017",
            "country": "CA",
            "county": "Laurentides",
            "countyCode": "15",
            "isCity": true,
            "latitude": 45.7987,
            "longitude": -74.0727,
            "postalCode": "J5L",
            "state": "Quebec",
            "stateCode": "QC"
        }
    ],
    "nearbyPlaces": [
        {
            "altCountry": "",
            "country": "CA",
            "elevation": "",
            "featureClass": "L",
            "featureCode": "PRK",
            "isPlace": true,
            "latitude": 45.3001,
            "longitude": -75.24931,
            "placeAltNames": "",
            "placeAsciiName": "Parc Alcide-Marcoux",
            "placeName": "Parc Alcide-Marcoux",
            "population": "0",
            "state": "10",
            "timezone": "America/Toronto"
        },
        {
            "altCountry": "",
            "country": "CA",
            "elevation": "",
            "featureClass": "P",
            "featureCode": "PPL",
            "isPlace": true,
            "latitude": 45.3334,
            "longitude": -75.24931,
            "placeAltNames": "",
            "placeAsciiName": "Limoges",
            "placeName": "Limoges",
            "population": "2048",
            "state": "08",
            "timezone": "America/Toronto"
        },
        {
            "altCountry": "",
            "country": "CA",
            "elevation": "",
            "featureClass": "P",
            "featureCode": "PPL",
            "isPlace": true,
            "latitude": 45.35782,
            "longitude": -75.25239,
            "placeAltNames": "",
            "placeAsciiName": "Cambridge Forest Estates",
            "placeName": "Cambridge Forest Estates",
            "population": "0",
            "state": "08",
            "timezone": "America/Toronto"
        },
        {
            "altCountry": "",
            "country": "CA",
            "elevation": "",
            "featureClass": "H",
            "featureCode": "STM",
            "isPlace": true,
            "latitude": 45.4001,
            "longitude": -75.24931,
            "placeAltNames": "",
            "placeAsciiName": "South Indian Creek",
            "placeName": "South Indian Creek",
            "population": "0",
            "state": "08",
            "timezone": "America/Toronto"
        },
        {
            "altCountry": "",
            "country": "CA",
            "elevation": "",
            "featureClass": "L",
            "featureCode": "AREA",
            "isPlace": true,
            "latitude": 45.4168,
            "longitude": -75.24931,
            "placeAltNames": "",
            "placeAsciiName": "Russell",
            "placeName": "Russell",
            "population": "0",
            "state": "08",
            "timezone": "America/Toronto"
        }
    ],
    "postalCode": "J8H",
    "state": "Quebec",
    "stateCode": "QC"
}

About

Have you ever been in the situation where you have latitude and longitude coordinates and need to convert them to a human readable location? This kind of thing comes up a lot. Having an API that does this for you very quickly and easily can help make this task a bit easier.

Some reasons you might want to use geo-info:

You need a reverse geocoding API.
You don't want to jump through hoops to get the information that you need.
You want a simple API that does not over complicate things.
You need information on cities and places nearby to the locations that you are looking up.
Speed and reliability are two things that you take seriously. You expect the solutions that you use to always be available when you need them and blazing fast.

Pricing

100 API requests are available free per day without an API key. If you need more, we offer a single plan described below.

Unlimited Reverse Geocoding
$50.00/mo
Get unlimited reverse geocoding queries per month. Nothing more, nothing less.

Using the API

The geo-info API is very easy to use. The format for making requests is as follows: https://geo-info.co/{latitude},{longitude}. The information that is returned is a very neat JSON object with information based on your latitude and longitude input.

Given a latitude and longitude the API will return the nearest location along with additional information about the location. The API will also return a list of cities and places nearby sorted by distance.

The dataset currently used is provided by GeoNames and is available under the Creative Commons 4.0 License.

Python

import requests

resp = requests.get("https://geo-info.co/45.6479,-74.3451")
json = resp.json()
print(json['city'])

NodeJS

const request = require("request");

request.get("https://geo-info.co/45.6479,-74.3451", (err, resp, body) => {
    const resp_obj = JSON.parse(body);
    console.log(resp_obj.city);
});

Ruby

require "net/http"
require "json"

resp = Net::HTTP.get(URI("https://geo-info.co/45.6479,-74.3451"))
json = JSON.parse(resp)
puts json['city']
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