GeoAPI

GeoAPI provides the following geo-location products as a web service:

• Reverse Geocoder: A reverse geocoder that take a lat/lon coordinate and returns the nearest intersection, the containing neighborhood, city, state, and country.
• Places Finder: Do point radius searches and more complex geo-queries against our database of 16 million businesses and points of interest. We will return detailed information such as hours of operation, keywords frequently associated with the business or point of interest, address, phone numbers, and other information. Each place has a canonical GUID/URL and a short URL on the geo.am domain. This means you can refer to the places in the GeoAPI in a canonical fashion and do not need to worry about the URL or other aspects of the places/entity changing. This provides long term product stability and the ability to compare “apples to apples” when referring to places in different applications.
• Writable Private Layer: Each developer gets their own “virtual layer” to which they can write data via the GeoAPI. This data can be appended to places that already exist in our system, or to new entities created as part of the layer. The developer can then do complex geo-queries against the GeoAPI to retrieve the information that was written.
• Media Layers: You can query other media in a Geo-specific context using the GeoAPI. Want to get back all the Tweets within a specific neighborhood? No problem. Want to see all the Flickr photos associated with a point of interest? Easily done.
• SDK: We have provided a simple wrapper for the iPhone to make it easy for developers to implement the GeoAPI.