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Reverse Geocode Coordinates to Addresses

Convert latitude and longitude coordinates into human-readable street addresses and place names.

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Address Geocoding

GPS devices, mobile apps, and IoT sensors generate coordinate data constantly, but coordinates alone are meaningless to most people. Reverse geocoding turns those numbers into addresses, neighborhoods, cities, and countries that humans can understand and act on.

The reverse_geocode skill takes a latitude/longitude pair and returns the nearest street address along with structured components like city, state, postal code, and country. It works globally, handling rural areas where the nearest address may be approximate as well as dense urban environments where precision matters down to the building entrance.

This is critical for fleet tracking dashboards that need to show where vehicles are in plain English, mobile apps that display a user-friendly location label, logistics platforms that convert drop-off coordinates into delivery addresses, and any system that bridges the gap between machine-generated coordinates and human-readable locations.

Agent Guides

Claude

  1. Connect ToolRouter: claude mcp add toolrouter -- npx -y toolrouter-mcp
  2. Ask Claude: "Reverse geocode these coordinates using address-geocoding" and provide the lat/lng
  3. Claude returns the full street address and structured components
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ChatGPT

  1. Configure ToolRouter in ChatGPT
  2. Ask: "What address is at these coordinates?" and provide the latitude and longitude
  3. ChatGPT returns the street address and location details
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Copilot

  1. Add ToolRouter to Copilot MCP config
  2. In Copilot Chat: "Reverse geocode these coordinates" and paste the lat/lng values
  3. Copilot returns the address and structured location data
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OpenClaw

  1. Connect ToolRouter: openclaw mcp add toolrouter -- npx -y toolrouter-mcp
  2. Ask OpenClaw: "What is the address at these coordinates?" and provide lat/lng
  3. OpenClaw returns the street address and parsed location fields
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