TownMe Geo API

The TownMe API includes both read and write geo-related services. The read side has a reverse geocoder which helps translate coordinates (AKA lat/longs) into human readable elements or associations. For instance, give the API "37.78093,-122.409415" and it will return information about the census tract, neighborhood, city, MSA, and state that contains these coordinates.

The POI Finder takes a lat long and gives a set of points of interests including businesses close to that point. This means anyone can build services that allow users to broadcast location or otherwise interact with their "real location".

The write components of the API include:

The ability to write data about locations. Each API key comes with its own overlay of the world and the ability to write data to this overlay. So, if you are writing an augmented reality game and want to hide a ghost at a bar in San Francisco, you can write the ghost to the bar using the API and all your users will find it there. This information will be stored on TownMe servers, which means all these interactions could be written in JavaScript without requiring server code.Read More