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Repeater Entry Provides Extremely Accurate and True Estimates of Range
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Geocoding - async (lat,lon) -> address, zip code #1

Open tarxvftech opened 2 years ago

tarxvftech commented 2 years ago

Humans can't generally read latitude and longitude and have a sense of what location is being referenced.

Write a function to take a lat and lon (wgs84) and return details about that area, such as

This will be used to check location data on repeaters.

tarxvftech commented 2 years ago

Possibly useful links: https://stackoverflow.com/a/8372267 https://github.com/thampiman/reverse-geocoder https://github.com/soodoku/latlong-to-zip

Minimum is a zip code. Town, state, country (and zip) is preferred. It would be great to perform online lookups unless that fails, in which case fall-back to an offline result and find some way of indicating the failure so the caller can retry later.

ibrahim-ogunbiyi commented 2 years ago

Hi please assigned this task to me. Thanks