The International Date Line and the requests that cross it
Two points a short distance apart can be on different calendar days entirely, purely because of where the International Date Line happens to run between them.
My Geocode blog (page 14)
Notes on geocoding, IP data, and building on the My Geocode API.
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Two ways to pay: cards and cryptocurrency
Prepaid credit and Unlimited packages can be paid by card, through Polar, or in cryptocurrency on our own payment page, at exactly the same price.
Why webhook-only APIs quietly exclude batch users
A webhook works well for one request at a time. It works badly for a script that just wants to send a thousand lookups and wait for a thousand answers.
Self-hosting Nominatim vs using a hosted drop-in
Running your own Nominatim instance gives control at the cost of ongoing maintenance. Here is how that tradeoff compares to a hosted equivalent.
Add a "detect my location" button without the browser prompt
Skip the browser's location permission dialog by detecting an approximate location from the visitor's IP address entirely on your own server.
Postal code coverage extended to more countries
Postal code lookup coverage now extends to more countries than before, widening the reach of the postal code endpoint for a broader set of applications.
Verifying identity address details for a fintech signup
A digital bank needed the address a new customer typed in to actually correspond to a real, well-formed location before it moved on to the rest of its identity checks.
Leap seconds, UTC, and why they rarely matter to you
Every so often, an extra second gets inserted into UTC to keep it aligned with the Earth's actual rotation. Almost no application needs to think about this directly.
What coordinate precision marketing gets backwards
A response with fifteen decimal places of latitude looks precise. It is not accurate just because it has more digits than the method can actually support.
TomTom vs MapQuest vs HERE for enterprise geocoding needs
These three providers all target business and enterprise geocoding, but their history and typical deployment context differ. Here is a structural look.
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