country-reverse-geocoder

Reverse country names from lat/lon. Project was initiated first for the geokrety.org project.

Requirements

A database (mariadb in our case) with GIS support.
A working php service
A webserver

Install

Copy geocoder.php somewhere accessible by php.
Copy geocoder.inc.ex.php as geocoder.inc.php next to geocoder.php
Edit geocoder.inc.php and fill your database configuration
Create a database, and import countries.sql.

Data source

All country polygons were extracted from Open Street Map.

License

Code is released under MIT license.

OSM data apply to © OpenStreetMap contributors