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Geocoding & Reverse Geocoding

A reliable worldwide geocoding & reverse geocoding engine

A global geocoding dataset in multiple languages that’s both accurate and flexible with full, partial or structured addresses.

Real-time conversion from latitude and longitude to address.


Real-time Geocoding: locate an address and format it correctly

Need to position a postal address on a map or retrieve the positions of your addresses?


Get the exact latitude and longitude of a city, a postcode or a full or partial address, along with its level of accuracy, or retrieve a human-readable address from a latitude and longitude.


You can also retrieve formatted addresses and, in addition, the component parts of an address to fill in your form’s dedicated fields, all in real time.


Geocoding

Trusted by

The best data in France and the UK

Woosmap sources the best address data providers (Royal Mail, BAN France) which take the specificities of addresses in these countries into account.  



Use cases

Display your locations

Retrieve the latitude and longitude of your own points of interest to position them on a map.

Address’ database cleansing

Use our API as an “address cleansing solution” for your database or add latitudes and longitudes to your CRM.

Delivery

Retrieve the geographical coordinates of your addresses to share them with your carrier and ship orders to the right destination.

Insurance

Get the road name in the event of an emergency call and make it easier to report the location of an incident.

Route planning

Calculate routes only by asking the user for a place name or an address.

Taxi, VTC

Confirm your customer’s full address by converting their position and accurately pinpoint it on a map.

Affordable and scalable

Caching policy

Enterprise licences allow caching of latitude and longitude values for 30 consecutive calendar days



Coverage

400 million addresses in over 243 countries and territories.



Performance

Hundreds of millions of geocoding requests with response times between 10 and 100 ms.

FAQ

What is Geocoding?

Geocoding is the action to convert address data to latitude and longitude coordinates which can be calculated, compared and mapped.

Geocoding is something which we use all the time when accessing mapping services.

When opening a map application or accessing a visual representation of a location with the “blue dot”, this process is called geocoding.

Whether there’s a full or partial address, geocoding can recognise anything.


What is Reverse Geocoding?

Reverse Geocoding retrieves nearest address to a given coordinates: it converts a latitude and longitude to address.




How can I optimise geocoding results?


You can use filters by country or language to get more relevant results.


Use the “language” setting to limit the number of results or filter by country (alpha 2/alpha 3 codes are available) to restrict your results to specific areas.



Can I perform bulk geocoding (batch process) with your Geocoding API?


Yes, the REST API is designed to support a large volume of requests. You can use the API to properly format your clients’ address database, for example.

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