Hack 59. Use Google’s Geocoding API to Reverse-Geocode a User’s Location

Longitude and latitude data is only beneficial to the application if it can do something more interesting than just display it. One common use case is to reverse-geocode, or find a human-readable location based on longitude and latitude.

In [Hack #58] we hacked together a simple mobile web application that displayed the user’s current longitude and latitude. In this hack we will use the same jQuery Mobile application and add an additional button to the home screen. This button will take us to a separate page that displays the nearest city and state based on our current location.

First, let’s add the additional button:

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