Looking up place names by coordinates

This Second Life Snapshot was taken by Dedric Mauriac 1 year, 1 month ago on Feb 1, 2009 on the Second Life Region Hooper.

Second Life Photo: Looking up place names by coordinates

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I have improved upon my Latitude/Longitude Lookup Globe. When someone touches the globe, it still converts the UV coordinates to degrees, minutes, and seconds. However, it now displays the name of a place, country, town, and city. I was able to do this by calling a web service from <a href="http://www.geonames.org">GeoNames</a>. Large oceans and some locations do not provide any information at all. However, it's really exciting to see the data come back for most land masses.

By Dedric Mauriac

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