Reverse geocoding not available for China - geocoding

Question

Hey there I am using here.com API for reverse geocoding. However when I try to fetch a location for China based on the latitude and longitde, I get "undefined" for the city.
What is that so?
Does someone know an alternative for reverse geocoding that works good, fast and affordable, instead of here.com ?
Thanks.

Answer 1

Data coverage from a lot of providers in China is spotty at best. Try a few and see what works for you. https://geocode.xyz/CN and https://geocode.earth are two alternatives.

Answer 2

You could give the Open Street Map Nominatim Webservice a go, this will perform geocoding and reverse geocoding for you, though I would check out the terms of use:
Below is an example in Node.js (you must install request and request-promise-native):
const rp = require('request-promise-native');
async function testReverseGeocode(latitude, longitude) {
const options = {
url: "https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/reverse",
qs: {
lat: latitude,
lon: longitude,
format: 'json'
},
json: true,
headers: {
'User-Agent': "Node.js",
'Accept-Language': 'en-GB,en;q=0.7,en-US;q=0.3'
},
};
let result = await rp(options);
console.log("Result: ", result);
}
testReverseGeocode(31.2304, 121.4737);
If you're happy to go with a paid service, the Google Geocoding API is very good and is not expensive if you don't perform a lot of requests:
const rp = require('request-promise-native');
async function testReverseGeocodeGoogle(latitude, longitude) {
const options = {
url: `https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?latlng=${latitude},${longitude}`,
qs: {
key: API_KEY
},
json: true
};
let result = await rp(options);
console.log("Result: ", result);
}
testReverseGeocodeGoogle(31.2304, 121.4737);