Photon Geocoder Alternatives

Photon Geocoder is described as 'Photon is an open source geocoder built for OpenStreetMap data. It is based on elasticsearch - an efficient, powerful and highly scalable search platform' and is an website in the travel & location category. There are four alternatives to Photon Geocoder, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Ruby, Python, JavaScript and cURL apps. The best Photon Geocoder alternative is Nominatim, which is both free and Open Source. Other great sites and apps similar to Photon Geocoder are APlace, Geocode Earth and OpenCage Geocoder.

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    Nominatim (from the Latin, by name) is a tool to search OSM data by name and address and to generate synthetic addresses of OSM points (reverse geocoding).

    4 Nominatim alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    APlace is a service that allows you to simply integrate powerful geolocation tools into your application.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  3. Geocode Earth provide quality Address Autocomplete, Reverse Geocoding & Place Geocoding solutions to small-to-medium sized businesses.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Ruby
    • Python
    • JavaScript
    • cURL
    • PHP
    • Ruby on Rails
     
  4. An easy, open, worldwide, affordable API to convert coordinates to places or vice versa. Free and paid usage levels. Libraries for most programming languages.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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