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ZeeMaps provides a International geocoding web service. Given a city, state (optional), and country combination, the service will return a set of latitude, longitudes (along with corrected city, state, country information). If you just provide a country name, the service will return the location at the center of that country.
This service is provided free of charge for trial and non-commercial use. In return, we ask you put a link: "Geocoding by ZeeMaps", on your web site.
In case you wish to use the service for extensive use, or for commercial purposes, please contact us to set up a commercial version for you.
The main functions provided by the service are:
Coordinates[] getCoordinates(String city, String state, String country);
Coordinates getCoordinates(String country);
struct Coordinates
{
double latitude;
double longitude;
String city;
String state;
String country;
}
The getCoordinates function takes city, state, and
country as input. These are all character strings. If it finds an
exact match, then it will return one set of coordinates. If it
does not find an exact match, it will try to find cities and
states that contain the input string. Then, it will return upto
five matches found.
The getCoordinates function can also take just a country name as input. It returns the center location for that country. In this case, the city and state fields of the returned value are empty.
You can invoke the International Geocoding by using the REST or SOAP API.
For REST interface, use the URL: http://www.zeemaps.com/geocode?city=&state=&country= which returns a series of Comma Separated Value (CSV) lines for the coordinates.
For example, if we go to: http://www.zeemaps.com/geocode?city=Paris&state=&country=France The result is,
48.866667,2.333333,Paris,France (general),France 45.633333,5.733333,Paris,Rhone-alpes,France
The SOAP interface is can be obtained from the URL: http://www.zeemaps.com/services/Geocode?wsdl
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