Use Case

Geospatial & Location Services

Maps, geocoding, routing, and place data.

9 providers 85 APIs 7 declared variants

Working with location — geocoding and reverse geocoding, maps and tiles, routing and distance matrices, geofencing, and point-of-interest and store-locator data.

9 API providers on the APIs.io network offer geospatial & location services. The highest-rated are IPinfo, Amazon Location Service, positionstack, Google Maps Platform, Amazon CloudSearch.

Providers

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Exemplar 4 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
IPinfo IPinfo is an IP address data and intelligence platform that provides geolocation (country, region, city, co... 17 APIs 75.3 Amazon Location Service Amazon Location Service provides location-based services including maps, places, routes, trackers, and geof... 1 API 67.3 positionstack Forward and Reverse Batch Geocoding REST API by positionstack (an apilayer product, owned by Idera, Inc.). ... 3 APIs 67.0 Google Maps Platform Google Maps Platform offers APIs and SDKs for maps, routes, and places functionality. 41 APIs 66.6
Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Amazon CloudSearch Amazon CloudSearch is a managed search service that makes it easy to set up, manage, and scale a search sol... 2 APIs 56.0
Developing 1 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Agricultural Statistics Service The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is an agency of the United States Department of Agricul... 5 APIs 45.9
Thin 3 Limited public surface area
Best Buy Best Buy is a multinational consumer electronics retailer offering technology products, services, and solut... 6 APIs 40.1 ipify ipify operates two complementary IP APIs. The free Public IP Address API (api.ipify.org, api6.ipify.org, ap... 3 APIs 38.4 Bonneville Power Administration The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) is a federal agency within the U.S. Department of Energy that mar... 7 APIs 28.3

What Providers Actually Declared

This use case is a canonical term. These are the free-text strings providers wrote in their own apis.yml that map onto it.

Compliance GeofencingCompliance and GeofencingFinding nearby businesses, restaurants, and points of interestGIS Data AnalysisGeospatial Cropland MappingGeospatial SearchStore Locator

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