The worldwide geocoding webservice is totally FREE and allow to find GPS coordinate and other informations for a given text (address, street name, city, zip,...) in 243 countries, via a REST webservice. It uses (free) data from OpenstreetMap that are imported into a local database. Gisgraphy doesn't use Google Maps geocoder, it do it by itself, it only use Google Maps to display the result of the search. You can see an example of use bellow. You can find documentation on how to use the XML API of the webservice and see how to download and install Gisgraphy.

Geocoder found GPS coordinate of an address, a city or a street. If you want to search for other things than an address (adm, hotel, monument,...), use the fulltext engine. If you want to divide an address into its individual component parts, use the address parser.


    Enter an address, a city or a street :

    Postal address (enable address parser)

    Select a country :



About : Gisgraphy is a TOTALLY FREE open source framework. Gisgraphy is a free, open source framework that offers the possibility to do geolocalisation and geocoding via Java APIs or REST webservices. Actually it manage Geonames and OpenStreetMap (42 million entries). It provides importers, Geocoding, Reverse geocoding, street search, address parsing, fulltext and find nearby (web)services. Results can be output in XML, Atom, RSS, JSON, PHP, Ruby, and Python. See project 's home page. IMPORTANT : DON'T use this site to bench or download data. if we do this, your IP address will be list here first, and it will be BLACKLISTED if necessary..
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