Address geocoding

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Science and technology

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

Address geocoding, or simply geocoding, is the process of taking a text-based description of a location, such as an address or the name of a place, and returning geographic coordinates (typically the latitude/longitude pair) to identify a location on the Earth's surface.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Address geocoding”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Bahnpirat, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.