What we shipped this month: geocoding, IP, time zone and more
A roundup of recent work across the API: new compatibility hosts, faster time zone and elevation lookups, dashboard features, and clearer quota visibility.
The dashboard now speaks more than one language
My Geocode serves customers worldwide, priced in EUR with no regional restriction, and the dashboard managing those accounts should not assume everyone using it is most comfortable reading English. Language settings are now available in the dashboard, letting the interface itself adapt to whichever language a customer prefers.
This sits alongside dark mode as one of the personalization options available from account settings, both aimed at the same underlying idea: the tools surrounding an API should fit how someone actually prefers to work, rather than asking every customer, everywhere, to adapt to one default. Switching a language preference takes effect immediately and can be changed again at any time without affecting anything else tied to the account.
Language settings apply to the dashboard interface itself, the pages covering usage stats, invoices, API keys, the referral program, two-factor authentication and coupon codes. They do not change how the API itself communicates. Request parameters, response field names, error formats, and the seventeen compatibility hosts all remain exactly as documented regardless of which language a given account's dashboard is set to, since consistency there matters more for integration code than convenience does.
We think of this as a natural extension of building for worldwide use rather than a separate feature bolted on for its own sake. An API priced only in EUR and built to work from any address already assumes an international customer base. A dashboard that only spoke one language back to that same base was always a mismatch worth closing.
For teams with members working in different languages day to day, each person's dashboard preference is their own, tied to how they individually prefer to work rather than fixed at the account level for everyone. That means a shared account can have team members each viewing the dashboard in whichever language suits them, without one person's preference overriding another's.
Language settings are available now to every account, alongside dark mode and the rest of the personalization options, reachable at /dashboard. Nothing about existing usage, keys, or billing changes as a result of this update. It only changes the language the dashboard uses to present that same information back to you.