HERE Geocoder API - Forward (Deprecated)

The HERE Geocoder API - Forward enables high precision conversion of real world addresses into latitude/longitude coordinates for mapping and spatial analysis. This API provides fresh and accurate enterprise-grade location information in 196 countries and is the perfect choice for any global solution requiring location services.

It allows you to access a high-performance REST API available worldwide with a string analyzer understanding the difference between address formats across countries. You can obtain geographic coordinates from input consisting of addresses (including street intersections, house numbers, and postal codes) and names of places (including areas, regions, landmarks and places of national importance).

Input can consist of full or partial addresses, either free form or structured. Output provides scoring and matching information, shapes for postal code boundaries, as well as shapes for any administrative level (e.g. country, state, city). Point addressing, house number interpolation and extrapolation is being used for most accurate and reliable location results.

HERE APIs use two random strings, app_id and app_code, to provide secure access to services requires authentication credentials To obtain your credentials for accessing the API in your applications and solutions get started for FREE with 250K transactions per month or to learn more visit https://developer.here.com/products/geocoding-and-search.

About HERE Technologies

HERE Technologies provides location Services that are based on one of the strongest mapping platforms in the industry, known for its level of detail, reliability, robustness and flexibility. It gives access to mapping, geocoding, places, routing, traffic, transit, positioning and geo-visualization functionalities and out-of-the-box solutions to solve complex location problems such as geofencing, calculating the toll costs for a route, customizing a route and more. For more information visit https://www.here.com/.