What per-product billing gets wrong about how APIs are used
Real applications mix geocoding, IP lookups, and time zone calls in a single request path. Billing them as separate products ignores how they are used together.
My Geocode blog (page 28)
Notes on geocoding, IP data, and building on the My Geocode API.
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Migrating from OpenCage
OpenCage built its name on simple onboarding and blended open data. Here is what a migration to a compatible drop-in host looks like in practice.
Turning a spreadsheet of addresses into a sales territory map
A sales operations team had eleven thousand customer addresses in a spreadsheet and no way to see them as a map, until a single batch geocoding run changed that.
Mobile carrier NAT and what it does to IP accuracy
Thousands of phones on the same carrier network can share one public IP address. That single fact explains most of the accuracy limits on mobile geolocation.
Find the time zone for any latitude and longitude
Turn any pair of coordinates into a time zone name, current UTC offset, and abbreviation with one API call, ready for your own date library.
Drop-in compatibility with Bing Maps REST Services is live
Requests built for Bing Maps REST Services now work against our host unchanged, matching the same parameters and response fields exactly.
Open time zone data should not be a premium feature
Time zone lookups run on a public, actively maintained data source. Charging a separate premium for that lookup does not reflect a real added cost.
Migrating from Mapbox Geocoding
Mapbox Geocoding returns GeoJSON, which shapes a lot of downstream code. Here is what changes and what does not when you switch providers.
Look up the postal code for a partial address
Get the postal code back from an address that is missing one, using the same forward geocoding call you already have in your checkout or signup form.
Showing the right local time in a multi-region support queue
A software company stopped guessing what time it was for a customer and started reading it directly off the support ticket, using nothing but the customer's IP address.
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