Mapbox: Get country of coordinates

Question

I'm using mapbox (https://www.mapbox.com/mapbox.js/api/v2.0.1/) and wounder if there is a way to get the country (or city?) of a [lat, lng] pair.

Would be nice if somebody could help me out :)

Kind regards

Answer 1

Here is a package for that: https://github.com/vkurchatkin/which-country You can install it via npm and use in browser with browserify. The API is quite simple:

var wc = require('which-country');

console.log(wc([-100, 40])); // prints "USA"

Answer 2

https://www.mapbox.com/developers/api/geocoding/

I found this endpoint a bit back when I had to do something similar: http://api.tiles.mapbox.com/v4/geocode/mapbox.places-country-v1/-73.989,40.733.json?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoibWFyaXNhZmx5bm4iLCJhIjoibG9JcmhrbyJ9.yDc_eDeDW2DeM_JVSQPp7g

Answer 3

Ok I have now fixed that task with http://www.mapquestapi.com/geocoding/#reverse Works pretty good for me.