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Tom Hammond
Tom Hammond

Reputation: 6090

Android/Rails Convert GPS Coordinates to Street Address

So I know there are a couple ways to convert GPS coordinates to a street address.

In Rails, I can use rubygeocoder.

In Android, I can use reverse geocoding via geocoder.

I've heard of folks running into issues with hitting quotas when doing this however, and I'm wondering what the best way to do this is if I expect to have far more than 2500 requests/day?

If I do it in my backend server, are there any concerns of hitting a quota? If so, does anyone know of any paid or free solutions that don't have a quota?

It seems like doing it on the Android side is probably the best route, given that each "client" would have a different IP address. But I'm always hesitant about doing things like that on the client as opposed to the server.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 148

Answers (1)

kaho
kaho

Reputation: 4784

You can use other services like open street maps Nominatim Reverse Geocoding

Or else you can do some kind of hashing in your server.

Upvotes: 1

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