Migrating a Zapier or Make automation to a new geocoding host
No-code automations built on a geocoding step need a different migration approach than custom code does. Here is how to handle that switch.
Migrating from HERE Geocoding and Search
HERE Geocoding and Search shows up a lot in automotive and logistics software, industries where an enterprise account with a named contact and a support contract is the normal way of doing business. Authentication is usually an API key or an OAuth token, and responses come back as an items array where each item carries a position object and a structured address block with fields like label, countryCode, and houseNumber.
That structure tends to be well documented internally at companies that rely on it, because HERE is often chosen specifically for its address parsing quality in a particular region or its routing integration elsewhere in the stack. A migration that breaks the response shape breaks all of that downstream code at once, which is why compatibility matters more here than the switching cost of the account itself.
My Geocode's HERE compatibility host reproduces the items array and its nested position and address fields exactly as HERE returns them, with only the copyright, terms, and privacy text replaced. See /compatibility/here/ for the field reference. In most cases the change needed in application code is the host name and the key, nothing in the code that reads items[0].position or items[0].address.label.
Enterprise teams migrating off HERE often have geocoding wired into several services rather than one, so it helps to inventory every call site first: batch jobs, address validation forms, delivery routing, and any admin tooling all tend to hit the same API independently. Moving them one service at a time, starting with something low traffic, is a sensible way to validate the new host under real conditions before the calls with the most volume switch over.
On authentication, a key issued by My Geocode can be sent as an X-API-Key header, an Authorization: Bearer header, HTTP Basic auth, or a query parameter. If your existing HERE client library already authenticates one particular way, pointing it at the new host with a new key is usually enough, since the library itself does not need to change.
Pricing removes a layer of negotiation that enterprise contracts often carry. There is no tiered account structure: 2,500 requests a day are free with no key, every key adds another 2,500 free requests a day counted per network, and beyond that it is prepaid credit at €0.0001 per request or an Unlimited key at €50 a month. Every endpoint, including this compatibility host, costs the same, so there is no separate negotiation for geocoding volume versus search or autosuggest volume.
If part of your HERE usage is autosuggest rather than straight geocoding, that is worth treating as its own migration step, since autocomplete-style endpoints have their own response shape and a request pattern that depends on partial input, and it deserves separate testing rather than being folded into a geocoding cutover. Quota usage on every request, including the compatibility host, is visible through response headers like X-Quota-Used and X-Credits-Remaining, documented at /docs/rate-limits/.