GIS: Geocoding Services

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Title: GIS: Geocoding Services 
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Description:
Geocoding is the process of taking a street address and converting it into
coordinates that can be plotted on a map.  This conversion typically requires
an API call to a remote server hosted by an organization/institution.  The
remote server will take the address attributes provided by you and the remote
server will compare it to the data it contains and return a best estimate on
the coordinates for that location.

There are many geocoding services available with different world coverages,
quality of result, and set different rate limits for access.  For R, a
package called "tidygeocoder" provides an easy way to connect to these
different services.  As an additional benefit, their documentation provides a
good summary of geocoding services available and links to their
documentation.  The link to the documentation for gecoding services
accessible by "tidygeocoder" is provided below.

For Python, geopy package is a library that provides connection to various
geocoding services.  The link to the documentation for this package is also
included below.


Link to Resource:
- Tidy Geocoder: geocoder services (https://jessecambon.github.io/tidygeocoder/articles/geocoder_services.html)
- GeoPy: Gecoders (https://geopy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/#module-geopy.geocoders)

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gis (275)

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