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Reverse geocoding is hard
My wife and I run OpenBenches - a crowd-sourced database of nearly 40,000 memorial benches. Every bench is geo-tagged with a latitude and longitude. But how do you go from a string of digits to something human readable? How do I turn -33.755780,150.603769 into "42 Wallaby Way, Sydney, Australia"? Luckily, that's a (somewhat) solved problem. Services like OpenCage, StadiaMaps, OpenStreetMap,…
They typically don't have a street number, but might have an interesting feature nearby to help with location. But we probably don't want to imply that the bench is inside or belongs to a specific nearby house. Most mapping provider have a POI function - we can find nearby things of interest and use them as a location.
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