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Google Maps: how to get country, state/province/region, city given a lat/long value?

I need a list of countries, states & cities based on a collection of lat/long values I have. I need to store this information in a manner that hierarchy is preserve and without duplicates (e.g. ...
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How to detect that a point is inside a Polygon using Google Maps?

I would like to detect that a google.maps.LatLng is inside a google.maps.Polygon. How can I do that ? Cheers,
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retrieving lat/long of location using google.maps.geocoder

i have been trying to use some ajax to save venue location in my application and stumbled across the following code on stack overflow function getLatLong(address) { var geocoder = new ...
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Retrieving Postal Code with Google Maps Javascript API V3 Reverse Geocode

I'm trying to submit a query using the postal code to my DB whenever the googlemaps viewport center changes. I know that this can be done with reverse geocoding with something like: ...
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Find path by sea from costal point A to costal point B

I have the seemingly tricky challenge of trying to work out a path, by sea, from one sea port to another sea port. The eventual aim is to plot this on a Google (or Bing) Map as a polyline. The path ...
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Autofill Address + Google Maps API

I want to present my users with a text box wherein they can type in their address. As they type their address, I want to provide the users with suggestions/predictions of what address they are trying ...
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More batch geocoding questions with the Google Maps API v3

I'm trying to figure out a nice way to limit the rate at which I send geocode requests to the Google Maps API v3 geocoder service. I know that Javascript does not have any nice wait or sleep because ...
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Google Maps V3 geocoding and markers in loop

I have some problems with my code, I have a list of airports in a sql database, and I want to create markers for each 1 of those airports. For the address i got ICAO-codes for each airport, an ICAO ...
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Using a signed Google Maps API Geocoding request from a .NET Command Line Application

So I'm writing an application to cache geocoding data as I import records. I've got it working fine when I use an unsigned request, however I can't seem to figure out what's wrong when I try to use my ...
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Geocoding service for a startup?

I'm working on an idea for a service that uses geocoded data (lat/lng) form a US address. Google maps API v3 has been awesome, until I read the terms of service and acceptable uses a little closer. ...
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Correct address format to get the most accurate results from google GeoCoding API

Is there any standard format to supply the address string to Google GeoCoding API to get the most accurate results on map. For Eg. following query not giving correct result. ...
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After months of 100% stability, today I get 403 Error on google maps services

I was just wondering if someone could shed some light on why I am seeing 403 Forbidden errors for my google maps services. I had been loading the maps api as such: <script type="text/javascript" ...
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How accurate are geocoding API's and what is the most accurate?

I'm creating an application with google maps api with geocoding functionality. Obviously, I want to use the api that is the most accurate. I'm giving the application an address and I need to find it ...
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Use Bing to geocode and Google maps api to display the map

I have an application which is currently using the google map API. I like the maps much better, and I feel like you have more options with google maps. The problem is, Google maps has been very ...
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Auto filing names of a City if the Country name is given

I am working on a site which prvides location based searching of users i.e. user can query system like "Give me the list of users staying at locality, city" and the system responds with the list of ...

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