How to obtain longitude and latitude for a street address programmatically (and legally)

web-services api geolocation geocoding street-address
Ola Eldøy picture Ola Eldøy · Oct 1, 2008 · Viewed 93.4k times · Source

Supposedly, it is possible to get this from Google Maps or some such service. (US addresses only is not good enough.)

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Sijin picture Sijin · Oct 1, 2008

The term you're looking for is geocoding and yes Google does provide this service.

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