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Reverse Geolocation

 
Wed, 07/27/2011 - 10:55am

I'm curious how you guys solve this issue:

If you have many sets of coordinates, how do you get the zip code for each location?

I use a look-up table that I got from http://zips.sourceforge.net/ and with some Excel trickery, I get what I need.

Is there some other, and easier process that I should look into?

I'm sure there are other, simpler ways to do this...

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Wed, 07/27/2011 - 12:06pm

EPE

I believe someone has already mentioned to you that there is a great tool created by one of our members called Extra POI Editor (EPE).

get it at http://turboccc.wikispaces.com/Extra_POI_Editor#toc5

Open EPE and then click on the "Add New POI" link at the bottom of the top left box (it is in purple). Put in your coordinates in the resulting dialog screen you get. Remember to use the negative longitude if you are in the US. Give the entry a name and then press OK at the bottom.

Put in several entries and then go to "Tools" > "Batch reverse Geocoding" (which is F4) and see what happens.