Build an elevation profile for a hiking or cycling route
Send a list of points along a route and get the elevation at each one back in a single request, ready to chart without further lookups.
My Geocode blog (page 27)
Notes on geocoding, IP data, and building on the My Geocode API.
Older posts
Half-hour and 45-minute time zones, explained
Not every time zone sits on a clean hour boundary. Several countries use 30 or 45 minute offsets, and code that assumes whole hours will break on them.
Drop-in compatibility with Mapbox Geocoding is live
Existing Mapbox Geocoding requests now work against our compatible host unchanged, matching its parameters and response shape exactly, minus the branding.
Routing support tickets by time zone
A help desk stopped routing tickets by billing country and started routing them by the customer's actual current time, cutting down on replies sent while a customer was asleep.
Why we built a keyless tier instead of a longer trial
A trial ends and asks for a credit card on a fixed schedule. A keyless tier just keeps working. We think the second one respects a developer's time more.
Migrating from LocationIQ
LocationIQ built its offering on open geographic data with a straightforward key-based API. Here is what changes when you migrate away from it.
Personalizing checkout by country and currency
An online retailer stopped asking shoppers to pick their own country at checkout and started detecting it automatically from the connection making the request.
Convert a UTC timestamp to local time for your users
Show timestamps in a visitor's local time instead of raw UTC, using their coordinates and a single time zone lookup with the right timestamp.
Drop-in compatibility with HERE Geocoding and Search is live
A new compatibility host reproduces HERE Geocoding and Search requests and responses exactly, so switching over needs only a host name and a key.
Time zone data: how the rules actually get maintained
Time zone offsets are not fixed physical facts, they are legal decisions that governments change. Here is how that gets tracked and kept current.
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