Geocode Earth

Geocode Earth is a hosted geocoding and address autocomplete API built by the team that maintains Pelias, the open-source geocoder. It provides forward (search), autocomplete, reverse, and structured geocoding plus place lookup over fully open data (OpenStreetMap, OpenAddresses, Who's on First, and Geonames), with results that can be stored without restrictive licensing.

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APIs

Geocode Earth Search API

Forward geocoding that turns a free-text place or address string into structured GeoJSON results with coordinates, ranked by relevance and filterable by country, layer, and source.

Geocode Earth Autocomplete API

Type-ahead geocoding optimized for partial, real-time user input, returning ranked suggestions as the user types and supporting focus.point to prefer nearby results.

Geocode Earth Reverse API

Reverse geocoding that converts a latitude/longitude point into the nearest address, venue, or (with the layers parameter) the administrative area that contains it.

Geocode Earth Structured Search API

Forward geocoding from separate address components (address, locality, region, postalcode, country, and more) instead of a single free-text string, for cases where structured fi...

Geocode Earth Place API

Looks up one or more records directly by their Geocode Earth global identifier (gid), returning the full GeoJSON feature without running a search.

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Geocode Earth API

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Pricing Plans

Geocode Earth Plans Pricing

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Rate Limits

Geocode Earth Rate Limits

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FinOps

Geocode Earth Finops

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opencollection: 1.0.0
info:
  name: Geocode Earth API
  version: '1.0'
request:
  auth:
    type: apikey
    key: api_key
    in: query
    value: '{{apiKey}}'
items:
- info:
    name: Forward
    type: folder
  items:
  - info:
      name: Forward geocoding (search)
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://api.geocode.earth/v1/search?api_key={{apiKey}}&text=476 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10018
    docs: Turn a free-text place or address string into structured GeoJSON results with coordinates, ranked by relevance.
  - info:
      name: Autocomplete (type-ahead) geocoding
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://api.geocode.earth/v1/autocomplete?api_key={{apiKey}}&text=lond&focus.point.lat=38.82&focus.point.lon=-77.01
    docs: Type-ahead geocoding optimized for partial, real-time user input, returning ranked suggestions as the user types.
  - info:
      name: Structured forward geocoding
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://api.geocode.earth/v1/search/structured?api_key={{apiKey}}&address=10 Downing St&locality=London&postalcode=SW1A
        2AA&country=GB
    docs: Forward geocoding from separate address components instead of a single free-text string.
- info:
    name: Reverse
    type: folder
  items:
  - info:
      name: Reverse geocoding
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://api.geocode.earth/v1/reverse?api_key={{apiKey}}&point.lat=-22.95166&point.lon=-43.21083
    docs: Convert a latitude/longitude point into the nearest address, venue, or the administrative area that contains it.
- info:
    name: Place
    type: folder
  items:
  - info:
      name: Place lookup by gid
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://api.geocode.earth/v1/place?api_key={{apiKey}}&ids=whosonfirst:locality:101750367
    docs: Look up one or more records directly by their Geocode Earth global identifier (gid).