Terence Eden personal blog
Reverse geocoding is hard
My wife and I run OpenBenches - a crowd-sourced database of nearly 40,000 memorial benches. Every bench is geo-tagged with a latitude and longitude. But how do you go from a string of digits to something human readable? How do I turn -33.755780,150.603769 into "42 Wallaby Way, Sydney, Australia"? Luckily, that's a…
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Software EngineeringDatabases & Data2025
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 2025 | Reverse geocoding is hard by pavel_lishin | 275 | 130 |
