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   Terence Eden (edent@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2023 18:03:58 JST Terence Eden

   Anyone here know of an *offline* reverse #geolocation database?

   I want to convert a lat/long into Country and, possibly, city.

   All the results I can see are for IP lookup, which I don't need.

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     pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2023 18:03:58 JST pettter

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     @Edent What you're looking for is a GIS database, I'm pretty sure.

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     Terence Eden (edent@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2023 18:19:52 JST Terence Eden

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     • pettter

     @pettter
     Which one do you use?

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     pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2023 18:19:52 JST pettter

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     @Edent I personally don't work with that at all really. I've friends who've worked with ArcGIS a lot, but that's probably overkill for your usecase. It's possible that a slightly easier out could be to use some OpenStreetMap library and search for enclosing features on the coarsest offline world map, but now I'm just speculating.

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     pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2023 18:32:19 JST pettter

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     @Edent Probably write it explicitly, but apologies for being a bit of a reply guy.

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     Terence Eden (edent@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2023 18:32:20 JST Terence Eden

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     • pettter

     @pettter I'm always looking for feedback on how to make my writing clearer.
     What could I have done to make it more obvious that I was looking for people with experience in this area?

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     pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2023 18:58:45 JST pettter

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     • Paul

     @threedaymonk @Edent Nah it's fine.

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     Paul (threedaymonk@sonomu.club)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2023 18:58:47 JST Paul

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     @pettter @Edent I think this is a bit unfair. Social media isn't anyone's personal research service, and I think the clue is in the "social". It's more like asking a question in the pub.