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Photon Geocoder — Addresses to Coordinates, Keyless

Photon Geocoder — Addresses to Coordinates, Keyless

Geocode a place name or address for free and get flat rows — name, street, city, district, state, country, postcode and coordinates. OpenStreetMap-based, no key.

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Photon Geocoder — Addresses to Coordinates, Free and Key-less

Geocode a place name or address for free and get flat rows — name, street, city, district, state, country, postcode and coordinates. OpenStreetMap-based, no key.

This is the key-less alternative to Nominatim, whose usage policy forbids bulk use, and to the paid geocoders.

What you get

name, street, houseNumber, postcode, city, district, state, country, countryCode, latitude, longitude, osmType, osmId.

Sample output

{ "name": "Lahore", "city": "Lahore", "state": "Punjab", "country": "Pakistan",
"latitude": 31.5497, "longitude": 74.3436, "osmType": "R", "osmId": 123 }

Limitations

  • OpenStreetMap data, so coverage varies by country. An address that exists in the UK or Germany may be missing in a region OSM has not mapped in detail.
  • It ranks by text match, not by importance, so the first row is not always the place you meant — check osmValue (city, street, house) to see what matched.
  • It is a free community service with no SLA. For high volume or production use, host your own Photon instance or use a paid geocoder.
  • houseNumber is present only where OSM has it.

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Pay per result.

Fields

FieldTypeWhat it holds
namestringDisplay name as the source writes it.
streetstringStreet name, without the house number.
houseNumbernumberHouse or building number on the street. Often absent outside Europe.
postcodestringPostal code as the source writes it — not normalised, and formats differ per country.
citystringCity name.
districtstringAdministrative district the record falls under.
statestringState, province or region name.
countrystringCountry name as the source writes it — sometimes 'Norge' rather than 'NO'. Not an ISO code unless the README says so.
countryCodestringTwo-letter ISO 3166-1 country code.
latitudenumberLatitude in decimal degrees (WGS 84). A STRING from some sources and a number from others — check the README per Actor.
longitudenumberLongitude in decimal degrees (WGS 84). A STRING from some sources and a number from others — check the README per Actor.
osmTypestringOpenStreetMap element type — node, way or relation.
osmIdstringOpenStreetMap element id. Combine with osmType to build the element URL.