Geocoding

Getting lat,lng from address or name of the place. Essential in Geovisualization. One way is using APIs of Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc, and the other way is using geocoding databases that contains information to translate location names.

Methods & APIs

Softwares and Libraries

It seems like there is no library that uses new Yahoo place finder API. All of them uses deprecated Yahoo maps API.

Tips

You can specify language and country of interest when using Yahoo or Google api (google maps example).

Domain specific tools

US

Korea

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