GeoNames Forum

I have a shapefile provided to me by the city government that contains polylines that should correspond to a subset of city streets. However the streetnames are not included in this data set. (I have contacted them and they will not provide a data set with names). I would like to iterate over every two point line segment and determine the correct name of the street. Using the nearbystreets ws I am able to guess but this turns out to be very inaccurate overall. There must be a more accurate way of guessing the streetnames when I have more than one point along the street.

Is there a ws that provides this, or can anyone suggest an algorithm or heuristic that would more accurately guess the street names?

You can use the Google Maps geocoder to find out the location of a streetname, or the streetname by a lat/long.

@SEO, do you know how to translate lat/lon to a streetname using google maps geocoder?