GeoNames Forum

Trying to figure out the best way to extract Street, City, State, and country information from Lat/Long data. I have ~ 200K points.

Hi

If your points are in the US then you can use our 'findNearestAddress' web service :
http://ws.geonames.org/findNearestAddress?lat=37.451&lng=-122.18

For points outside of the US we don't have a street level reverse geocoding service. You could use the findNearbyPlace service to get the closest city name. You might want to combine different services to get the optimal result.

In any case, please be nice to our servers and use some wait time between requests.

Cheers

Marc