GeoDescription API
A service for reverse geocoding.
Converting geographic coordinates to address-like location description.

Features

Bespoke API service
  • Designed for high volume commercial usage
  • Clean API service usage design
Address-like Location Description
  • Text list or JSON list containing names of street, road, place, regions, and country
Streamlined Customer Website
  • Managing and monitoring API keys, services, usages, and payments
  • Service on-line purchases, modifications, cancellations and refunds
  • Customer represented by anonymous login id
  • Customer's personal and payment data managed by Stripe Payments
Data Sources
Data Maintenance
  • Updated from sources daily
Territories
  • Currently enabled: Europe, USA
  • Commercial interest in any other territory? - Contact us
  • All countries and territories are available
 
 

API Service Pricing

Free

 

$0

 

  • Intended for testing and validation
  • Request rate limited to 1/second
  • Response: between 1 and 3 seconds
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Get started

API Requests

Prepaid

$10

for 1 million requests

  • Intended for trials and moderate use
  • Request rate limited to 600/minute
  • Prepay up to: 100 millions requests
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API Request Rate

Subscription

$10

for 500 requests per minute monthly

  • Intended for transport telematics providers
  • Request rate limited to subscribed rate
  • Subscribe up to: 100,000 per minute
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Quick Start

Free usage
https://free.geodescription.com/text/lat=LATITUDE/lon=LONGITUDE
https://free.geodescription.com/text?lat=LATITUDE&lon=LONGITUDE
Example request
https://free.geodescription.com/text/lat=51.3034/lon=-0.3063
Prepaid and subscription usage
https://api.geodescription.com/text/lat=LATITUDE/lon=LONGITUDE/key=APIKEY
https://api.geodescription.com/text?lat=LATITUDE&lon=LONGITUDE&key=APIKEY
Example request
https://api.geodescription.com/text/lat=51.3034/lon=-0.3063/key=YOUR-API-KEY
Example response
Leatherhead Road (A24), Ashtead, Mole Valley, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Free usage
https://free.geodescription.com/textParts/lat=LATITUDE/lon=LONGITUDE
https://free.geodescription.com/textParts?lat=LATITUDE&lon=LONGITUDE
Example request
https://free.geodescription.com/textParts/lat=51.3034/lon=-0.3063
Prepaid and subscription usage
https://api.geodescription.com/textParts/lat=LATITUDE/lon=LONGITUDE/key=APIKEY
https://api.geodescription.com/textParts?lat=LATITUDE&lon=LONGITUDE&key=APIKEY
Example request
https://api.geodescription.com/textParts/lat=51.3034/lon=-0.3063/key=YOUR-API-KEY
Example response
[
  {
    "wayName": "Leatherhead Road",
    "wayRef": "A24"
  },
  {
    "place": "Ashtead",
    "type": "village"
  },
  {
    "boundary": "Mole Valley",
    "level": "-6"
  },
  {
    "boundary": "Surrey",
    "level": "-4"
  },
  {
    "boundary": "England",
    "level": "-2"
  },
  {
    "boundary": "United Kingdom",
    "level": "top"
  }
]

Documentation

See documentation for more details.

Contact

Have questions?
Need help?
Need more territories enabled?
Please email: contact@geodescription.com