Drop-in compatibility with TomTom Search is live
A compatibility host for TomTom Search now reproduces its request and response format exactly, letting existing integrations switch with a host and key.
My Geocode blog (page 23)
Notes on geocoding, IP data, and building on the My Geocode API.
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Pricing a subscription differently by region
A software company wanted to price the same subscription differently across markets without asking every visitor to declare their own country first.
What "confidence score" marketing gets wrong
A confidence score sounds precise. It is often just a number that lets a provider avoid saying plainly whether an answer is likely to be right.
Migrating from Open-Elevation
Open-Elevation is a self-hosted, open source elevation API with a simple request shape. Here is what moving to a managed endpoint changes.
Retry a failed lookup the right way
Not every error is worth retrying immediately, and not every error is worth retrying at all. Here is how to tell them apart.
Countries with no house numbering system
Not every country organizes addresses around a street name and a house number. Several use entirely different schemes, and geocoding has to accommodate that.
Segmenting analytics by country without a tracking script
A publisher wanted country-level traffic data without adding another tracking script to its pages, so it resolved location from the server logs it already had.
Drop-in compatibility with Geoapify is live
Geoapify-shaped requests now work against our compatible host with matching parameters and response fields, needing only a new host name and key to switch.
Why privacy by default should be the norm, not a selling point
A privacy feature you have to enable was designed to be off by default. Privacy that actually matters should not need a toggle switch at all.
Migrating from OpenStreetMap Nominatim
Nominatim's usage policy and self-hosting realities push a lot of teams toward a hosted equivalent. Here is what that move looks like.
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