If you had always admired Google Map’s ability to find any place on earth with latitude and longitude, now the software has been hacked to do the reverse. You just have to enter the latitude and longitude of a place and it will fetch you the address of that particular latitude and longitude you entered.

Amit Agarwal, who is behind this hack, seems to have hit the right button by helping the software display reverse-geocoded address. This may be useful to people who would want to know where exactly their address would fall in geocode lingo.

However, I would say, it isn’t a good idea of the hack fell to wrong hands; especially in conflict hit areas, where either addresses or geocodes could be misused for attacks. Nevertheless, I must say it is an interesting hack and perhaps Google wouldn’t be too happy about it.

Via: LifeHacker