November 24, 2009

We get the address by latitude and longitude -using php code

In this post i would like explain about how did we get the complete address with using of longitude and latitude using google map API and php code. With following simple steps we can retrieve the complete address.

The following is may useful script to detect the address.

Step 1 : Signup for API key Google Map.

Step 2 : Follow the below php code:

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<?php
if(isset($_GET['latitude']))
{
$latitude=$_GET['latitude'];
}
if(isset($_GET['longitude']))
{
$longitude=$_GET['longitude'];
}

Your API Key

1	$key= "Your API Key";

Call the below function to get the address:

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$data=translateLatLngtoAddress($latitude,$longitude,$key);

echo "<pre>";
var_dump($data);
echo "</pre>";

Function for get the data :

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function translateLatLngtoAddress($lat,$long,$key)
{
$lat=mb_convert_encoding($lat, 'UTF-8',mb_detect_encoding($lat, 'UTF-8, ISO-8859-1', true));
$long=mb_convert_encoding($long, 'UTF-8',mb_detect_encoding($long, 'UTF-8, ISO-8859-1', true));

$url="http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=$lat,$long&output=csv&sensor=false&key=".$key;
$response = getGeolocation($url);

if (substr($response, 0, 3) === '200') {
return $geo = explode(',', $response);
}
return false;
}

Function is for get the location is getGeolocation:

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function getGeolocation($url)
{

$init = curl_init();
curl_setopt($init, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($init, CURLOPT_HEADER,0);
curl_setopt($init, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"]);
curl_setopt($init, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$response = curl_exec($init);
curl_close($init);
return $response;
}

Hope that it may be useful.

Thank you,

12 Comments

srinivas tamada says:

November 25, 2009 at 5:44 am

useful…
Hashim says:

December 2, 2009 at 10:35 am

Hi this code is not work

Warning: Wrong parameter count for mb_detect_encoding() in /opt/lampp/htdocs/map/map3.php on line 22

Warning: mb_convert_encoding() [function.mb-convert-encoding]: Unknown encoding “-8″ in /opt/lampp/htdocs/map/map3.php on line 22

Warning: Wrong parameter count for mb_detect_encoding() in /opt/lampp/htdocs/map/map3.php on line 23

Warning: mb_convert_encoding() [function.mb-convert-encoding]: Unknown encoding “-8″ in /opt/lampp/htdocs/map/map3.php on line 23

bool(false)
Anil Kumar Panigrahi says:

December 8, 2009 at 7:23 am

Hi Hashim,

Its working yaar, i place demo following url, we can find the details.

http://labs.anil2u.info/latlong.php?latitude=16.9662011&longitude=82.2243712

Thank you.
Dharmveer Motyar says:

December 16, 2009 at 12:51 pm

Useful but please write a post How to detect user’s country?
Thanx for your help anil.
Joomla Developers says:

January 18, 2010 at 6:18 am

The code was really helpful and easy to understand. Thanks Anil

Hi Dharmveer,

You can get the code for “How to detect user’s country” from:

http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/2363.html
vainfotech says:

September 10, 2010 at 5:48 am

It is very useful

Thanks
Sandeep Kumar says:

August 22, 2011 at 12:29 pm

Thanks… Its really working..
Brijesh and sandeep says:

September 11, 2011 at 6:23 am

Its really very usefull ….
thanks .
Nancy says:

March 15, 2012 at 9:00 pm

What does this do please
$url=”http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=$lat,$long&output=csv&sensor=false&key=”.$key;
Mayank says:

May 12, 2012 at 12:44 pm

Hi I am using the code but it is giving me bool(false) where i am using

echo “
```
";
var_dump($data);
echo "
```
“;

Please tell me what to do… whats wrong in my code
Anil Kumar Panigrahi says:

May 13, 2012 at 6:19 am

@Mayank , This code using older version of google map api. It will be working for v2. I will update the post using v3 API.