Reverse Geocoding API Free

 Free reverse geocoding api: Converts geographic coordinates into human-readable addresses

Every location-based application or website needs to process latitude/longitude data and convert it into a human-readable address. Using reverse geocoding is a powerful and useful feature that can save a lot of time and effort.

BigDataCloud offers a reverse geocoding API free of charge to meet the needs of any business. Unlike other providers, our reverse geocoding service is client-side which avoids the risks of violating your users' privacy and ensures fast results without the need for an API key or account creation.

Reverse geocoding works by finding the closest available OSM object and returning its address information. This may occasionally lead to unexpected results, such as small, unnamed paths that have a different address than the coordinate you requested.

The address returned by a reverse geocoding service includes X/Y coordinate values that represent the street address, and DisplayX/DisplayY coordinates that represent the rooftop, or building centroid, coordinates of the address. This geometry is used for most spatial analysis and map display purposes.

Limiting the number of features that are returned by a reverse geocoding query (default: one) is an option that can be used to determine how results are sorted when multiple results are returned. Options include distance, which causes the closest feature to always be returned first; and score, which allows high-prominence features to be sorted higher than nearer, lower-prominence features.

To use the reverse geocoding api free, call it using an HTTP Get request with the latitude/longitude coordinates of your point as input. Optionally, pass a type parameter to define your search level: city, postcode, country or other address types.