[gpsd-users] location lookup

[Yan Seiner]

I am running gpsd on an embedded platform in a vehicle.  It's hooked up to
a camera and takes pictures every so often, recording where the vehicle
has been.  Right now it annotates the images with the GPS coordinates,
along with the vehicle speed, time of day, and direction of travel.

I'd like to add a "near to location" tag.  I can find a lot of utilities
that use a web interface to show location on a map; I am looking for a
standalone utility along with a database that can look up towns and
geographic features and return a distance and direction to a nearby
landmark.

For example, when given 42.914061,-121.030884 it would return "8 Miles
South of Silver Lake, OR".  It doesn't have to be comprehensive or really
up to date; I am looking for a "good effort" type of result that would
help someone in identifying the picture location.

Is anyone aware of anything like that?

-- 
On two occasions I have been asked,—"Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into
the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not
able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could
provoke such a question.
—Charles Babbage, Inventor of the computer, 1864