Google has announced a new geocoding web service app authors can use to better plot locations on a map. The new Google Geocoding Web Service includes some enhanced capabilities that not only make it ...

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The Google Geocode API allows your business to make use of the global information available on Google Maps by converting street addresses into geographic coordinates to place markers on Google Maps.

Geocoding usually refers to taking an address or other location and turning it into a pair of coordinates. You can then plot that coordinate on an online map, or find things near it. Latitude and ...

Maps have been an integral part of our lives since ancient times. The Sumerian Empire maps dating back to 5,000 B.C. are proof that humans have long tried to make sense of their surroundings and chart ...

Since patents are all the rage these days I thought I would toss out the following: Google was awarded a patent today. The patent is for technology that allows a geocode (latitude, longitude) to be ...

I love a good geocoder. That's a piece of software that turns a human-readable location, like "60 5th Ave, NYC," into latitude and longitude coordinates that are easy to plot on a map or feed into ...