About My Geocode
We build and run a geocoding API. That is the whole company.
Why it exists
Most of us had the same experience before starting this: a side project needed to turn addresses into coordinates, the big providers wanted a billing account and a key before the first request, and the small ones had free tiers that vanished or came with rules about attribution and non-commercial use. Pricing pages had tiers, credits, SKUs and sessions. Working out what a month would cost meant a spreadsheet.
So the rules here are short. Signing up takes an email address, and every account gets 2,500 free requests a day, shared by all of its keys; that is not a promotion. Above the free allowance it is one price per request in prepaid credit, €0.0001, or one flat fee a month for an Unlimited key, paid by card or in crypto. Every endpoint costs the same. Results are yours to keep.
Three things we care about
Saying how good a result is
A geocoder that silently returns a city centre when it could not find the house causes bugs that show up months later as a delivery to the wrong place. Every result we return carries a precision value, and the coverage page says what we can and cannot do in each country before you build on it.
Not making you rewrite anything
Switching providers usually means new response formats and a week of parsing changes. Our drop-in hosts answer in the formats of Google, Bing, HERE, Mapbox and others, so moving is a hostname change. That includes the JavaScript map libraries.
Staying small
We do not do routing, fleet tracking or analytics dashboards. Eight lookups, done properly, with documentation that fits in an afternoon.
Where the data comes from
Official address and postal data, internet registration and routing data for IP lookups, the standard time zone database, and global terrain models. Every source is checked against the others and our own corrections sit on top. Nothing here is scraped from other geocoding services.
Get in touch
Questions, corrections to the data, or a country where you know the coverage is wrong: write to us. Corrections from users are how a lot of the house-level data got better.