Where is my vehicle?
With a street address, you can send human readable delivery updates to customers, store route data and more.
What is Reverse Geocoding?
Reverse geocoding is the process of converting geographic coordinates such as latitude and longitude into a human-readable address.
With reverse geocoding, you can see the actual names of places on your maps instead of just numbers and letters. Imagine being able to see 'Delicious Curry House' or 'Gorgeous Tea Estate' on your map instead of just 'Latitude: 12.9716° N, Longitude: 77.5946° E'.
Why You Need Reverse Geocoding
Reverse geocoding can be a valuable tool if you want to make the most of your location data.
Convert coordinates into human-readable addresses
Easily navigate to specific locations and plan routes
Analyze and make decisions based on location data
Suitable for a wide range of applications, including navigation and location-based services, property analysis, and much more.
Try our Reverse Geocoding API
Reverse Geocoding Helps With..
What's at this Map point?
Show vehicles or devices on a map, with a street address, allow filtering by neighbourhood, city or country, and more.
Which cities bring in most sales?
Make sense of the ‘Where’ element in your data. Enhance location data with addresses to segment data better.
Why Us?
Friendly Licensing
Use with or without our maps and get custom plans and SLAs on demand. You can also store response data forever!
Blazing fast
All our servers run on SSDs, and our response times are less than 100 ms. Our Data Centers are located in 3 continents for lower latencies.
Worldwide coverage
From New York to Tokyo, get world-wide coverage powered by open and proprietary data.
Affordable
Start with our generous free tier and save money when you grow with our affordable volume plans.
Easy to install and to use. A reliable and affordable alternative to Google Maps API.
Andre Zayarni,
CTO & CPO, MoBerries GmbH
LocationIQ provides a very reliable, cheap, and well-documented API. I definitely recommend this product over other options.
Parth Shah,
Software Engineer, eDelta
It is very easy to set-up and works very well. I am impressed at how Reliable LocationIQ has been for us at EnVsion.
Eddie Forson,
Co-Founder, EnVsion
Easy to implement, well documented, reliable address data, very affordable.
Clive Kemp,
Director, Detonation IoT
The service just works. All the time. And it's blazing fast! You'll not be disappointed.
Bart Debruyn,
Independent Entrepreneur, Evobel
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Reverse Geocoding?
Reverse geocoding is a process of converting geographic coordinates into a human-readable address. Reverse geocoding is often used in applications that involve mapping or location-based services, such as navigation apps, to convert the user's current location into a recognizable address. This can be useful for providing directions, finding nearby businesses or points of interest, and other location-based tasks.
Is the Reverse Geocoding API free to use?
Yes you can use the Reverse Geocoding API for free! We allow a generous free tier of 5000 requests per day. Sign up for a free account here.
How do I use the Reverse Geocoding API?
We have detailed documentation on how to use the Reverse Geocoding API here. You can also write to us for help.
Can I store the addresses from your Reverse Geocoding API?
Yes! You can store response data forever. If you have a free account, you can also cache API request-response pairs for upto 48 hours. If you're a customer, cache request-response pairs for as long as you're a customer! :-)
What are your licensing terms?
You can use our free plan in commercial projects if you spread the love by adding a link to us on your website or app in this format: "Search by LocationIQ.com"! Please also read our Terms of Use. Other than that, not much else. :-)
How accurate is Reverse Geocoding?
Reverse geocoding accuracy is measured in terms of the level of address received from the geocoding service. For a given pair of coordinates,
- If the most precise part of the address is the street number or business name, it’s considered a ‘rooftop level address’.
- If the most precise part of the address is the street name, it's considered a ‘street level address’.
How to geocode a huge batch of addresses?
LocationIQ is an API-first platform. If you’re comfortable using the API, you can send multiple addresses concurrently. The number of concurrent API calls depends on your plan with us. The free plan allows you to query upto 2 API calls per second but we can scale all the way upto 30,000 API calls per second.
