Building a real estate search that ranks by commute distance
A property listing site let buyers filter by bedroom count and price for years, then added the one filter buyers actually asked for most: distance from work.
My Geocode blog (page 20)
Notes on geocoding, IP data, and building on the My Geocode API.
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Drop-in compatibility with Open-Elevation is live
Open-Elevation requests now resolve against our host, returning elevation figures in the same shape, switchable with only a host name and key.
Moving off a Google Maps Platform time zone integration
A Google time zone lookup is often bundled with a bigger Maps Platform account. Here is how to move just that piece.
Why sandbox environments should be free
A sandbox that costs money just to test in is not really a sandbox at all. It is a paid tier wearing a testing costume for the pricing page.
Why coordinate rounding matters more than people think
Trimming decimal places on a coordinate looks harmless, but each digit represents real distance on the ground, and rounding too aggressively can move a point by meters or kilometers.
Auto-filling a checkout address from a partial entry
A checkout form used to make shoppers type a full street address by hand, until suggestions started appearing after the third or fourth letter.
Build a "did you mean" suggestion box with autocomplete
Show a short list of likely matches as someone types an address, so a typo gets corrected quietly before it is ever submitted on the form.
Drop-in compatibility with OpenStreetMap Nominatim is live
Requests built for OpenStreetMap Nominatim now work against our host, matching its parameters and response shape with only a host and key changed.
Postal codes deserve more respect than they get
Postal code lookups get treated as a minor utility next to geocoding, but they carry real structure and real regional variation that deserves the same care.
Migrating from ipstack
ipstack's nested connection object and access_key parameter are common patterns to preserve during a migration. Here is how that works.
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