GeoDescription API

GeoDescription is an API service that provides reverse geocoding solutions to our customers, which converts geographical coordinates to location description.

Features

  • Location description is comma separated text containing names of street, road, place, regions, and country.
  • Bespoke API service designed for high volume and low latency commercial usage.
  • Data sources: OpenStreetMap
  • Data update frequency: daily
  • Territories available: Europe, USA
  • Commercial interest in any other territory? Contact us.

Pricing

Free

 

$0

 

  • Request rate: 1 per second
  • Response: between 1 and 3 seconds
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Enterprise

Per Request

$10

for 1 million requests

  • Request rate: TBD
  • Minimum payment: $10 (€10, £10)
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Enterprise

Per Device

$10

for 1000 devices monthly

  • Request rate: 1 in 2 minutes per device
  • Minimum payment: $10 (€10, £10)
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Usage

Syntax

https://free.geodescription.com/text/lat=LATITUDE/lon=LONGITUDE
also
https://free.geodescription.com/text?lat=LATITUDE&lon=LONGITUDE

Example

Request: https://free.geodescription.com/text/lat=51.3034/lon=-0.3063
Response: Leatherhead Road (A24), Ashtead, Mole Valley, Surrey, England, United Kingdom

Note: Coming soon.

Syntax

https://api.geodescription.com/text/lat=LATITUDE/lon=LONGITUDE/key=APIKEY
also
https://api.geodescription.com/text?lat=LATITUDE&lon=LONGITUDE&key=APIKEY




Note: Available only from your IP address(es) after we register them with the system.

Syntax

https://api.geodescription.com:8082/text/lat=LATITUDE/lon=LONGITUDE
also
https://api.geodescription.com:8082/text?lat=LATITUDE&lon=LONGITUDE