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		Centrino 58 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mapping latitude and longitude to country, state, ... The right term for what you are doing is "reverse geocoding".

esalman 58 days ago [–]

In some industries, a 0.7% rate of error for a simple reverse geocoding application would not be acceptable.

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