geocoder.us / geocoder.net
find the latitude & longitude of any US address - for free
Look up an Address:Enter a US address or intersection, e.g. 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington, DC. For best results please use a comma between the street and the city, and add the zip code if possible. Free lookups are throttled by your IP address to one request every 15 seconds. |
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Or try one of these examples...How can I help?You can make improvements to the source code and send patches for inclusion in future releases. You can also donate via PayPal to help defray the cost of developing and hosting this free public service. Any amount is appreciated! |
Recent News and NotesApril 8, 2010 Geocoder.us is run primarily as a public service by Rich Gibson and Schuyler Erle. Schuyler Erle, creator of Geocoder.us, spent time in Haiti doing mapping work in support of the relief efforts. Schuyler, John Crowley, and Jeffrey Johnson spoke about Crisis Mapping at the Where 2.0 conference on April 2nd, 2010. Watch their talk here. The key quote to me (Rich) is 'Open Street Map saved lives in Haiti.' Rich Gibson has been working on the GigaPan Project, and has technical notes on GigaPanning here. Other things you can do at Geocoder.us
Commercial Services!Locative Technology is proud to offer
licenses to use our web services for commercial or for-profit
purposes.
Web Services Interface
Read more about how we have taken the work out of geocoding, and then contact our data bureau at
databureau@geocoder.us.
Please Note:For bulk geocoding please follow the instructions here and do not pay until you have received your completed file.For web services use please note that when we get notified by paypal of your credits we have to _manually_ update our database--this will be fixed, but please be patient when your credits are not instantly added to your account. Please. Affordable for many different applications!
Get 4 lookups per 1¢! |
How can I use it?You may use the demo on this website for non-commercial purposes. We encourage you to write code using our web services API for non-commercial purposes! You can read our developer documentation, and take a look at some example SOAP, XML-RPC, REST-ful RDF, and NEW REST-ful CSV (plain text) clients. Please drop an email to services@geocoder.us if you plan to build our web services into your application, so that we can keep you informed of service updates or changes. We intend to make every effort to keep the geocoder running stably, but this service is provided with no warranty or guarantee of availability! If you wish to use our web services for commercial purposes, you must sign up for a commercial license, or contact us to discuss other options. Please see our Terms and Conditions of Service for more details. |
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- Send us data
- We geocode it, and return it to you
- The returned data includes any identifiers or names which you send to us, so you can reintegrate the data into your systems.
- The data includes a KML file which you can open in Google Earth to see your addresses 'right now!' This is the easiest way to get a geographical sense of your data!
- if you like it, pay for it! The cost is $50 per 20,000 records with a $50 minimum.
- Please read this description of the process