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Process of turning a place name/address to coordinates

Address geocoding, or simply geocoding, is the process of taking a text-based description of a location, such as an address or the name of a place, and returning geographic coordinates to identify a location on the Earth's surface. Reverse geocoding on the other hand converts geographic coordinates to the description of a location, usually the name of a place or an addressable location. Geocoding relies on a computer representation of address points, the street / road network, together with postal and administrative boundaries.Geocode (verb): provide geographical coordinates corresponding to. Geocode (noun): is a code that represents a geographic entity .In general is a human-readable and short identifier; like a nominal-geocode as ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, or a grid-geocode, as Geohash geocode. Geocoder (noun): a piece of software or a (web) service that implements a geocoding process i.e. a set of interrelated components in the form of operations, algorithms, and data sources that work together to produce a spatial representation for descriptive locational references. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: Address geocodingA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: A graph-based approach for representing addresses in geocodingInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: Eliminating Healthcare Disparities in AmericaThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: A comparison of address point, parcel and street geocoding techniquesCited 167 times
  5. Go sideways: Reverse geocodingA closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: GeocodeA closely related topic

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  2. Geocoding process
  3. Address interpolation
  4. Other techniques
  5. Research
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