Google Maps – Forward and Reverse Geo-Coding

Google Maps allows you to plug in an address and get the location displayed on the map. But what Google Maps does not allow you to do is click on a location on the map and get the address of that location. The first is an example of forward geo-coding. The later is an example of reverse geo-coding.

I needed a tool that would allow me to quickly navigate to a location of a know address (forward geo-coding) and then display the addresses of different locations on the map (reverse geo-coding). So using Google Map API examples, I quickly created this very simple tool which will allow you to do this. Check it out at: http://www.aggregatedintelligence.com/googlemaps/reverseGeoCode.html.