January 07, 2020
1. Accuracy Improvements We've added more underlying source datasets and made improvements to how we parse Canadian addresses. These improvements have led to a 96% increase in high-accuracy results. Now, given a random sample (more specifically: a list of all Tim Horton's locations), 84% of results will come back rooftop or range interpolated, versus 70% before. Table showing data of geocoding…
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November 11, 2019
We've gotten many requests over the years to customize the preview maps, like changing marker styles, adding info pop-ups for each point, combining multiple spreadsheets, and overlaying boundaries like Congressional districts, counties, and school districts. We've also heard many frustrations about how most mapping platforms change per page view, leading to unpredictable costs. So we're thrilled…
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November 11, 2019
The price for Geocodio Unlimited is going up on December 1, 2019 to $1,000 per month, or $11,400 per year (5% discount). All Unlimited subscribers as of 11/30/2019 will be grandfathered in to the existing rate -- $750 per month, or $8,550 per year. This price includes unlimited geocoding and data appends via spreadsheet or API, with no per-seat costs. A single Unlimited instance can process 20…
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November 05, 2019
Sometimes scripts go rogue and get scaled accidentally. To better handle this, we've introduced a rate limit of 1,000 individual API calls per minute for the pay-as-you-go plan. To be very clear about what this means, it is only related to individual API calls, not the number of lookups in a batch. You can still use our batch endpoint to process thousands of lookups at once. (Here's our…
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September 19, 2019
Do you need to work with historical Census blocks, tracts, and other divisions? With the new version 1.4 of our API, you can specify the year for Census data, going back to 2010. [Update, January 2022: You can now request boundaries from the 2000 Census as well.] The data returned includes FIPS codes, tracts, blocks, Metropolitan Statistical Areas, Census Designated Areas, and Metropolitan…
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April 24, 2019
ProPublica: Using Geocodio to Build a News App Non-profit news organization ProPublica recently built a news app to bring transparency to parking ticket issuance in Chicago, and they selected Geocodio as the geocoder behind the project. They published a detailed overview of the project and how the built the application, and included why they used Geocodio. See more here. Congressional Contact…
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March 05, 2019
Non-profit news organization ProPublica recently built a news app to bring transparency to parking ticket issuance in Chicago, and they selected Geocodio as the geocoder behind the project. "At ProPublica Illinois, we’d been reporting on Chicago’s aggressive parking and vehicle compliance ticket system for months. Our stories revealed a system that disproportionately punishes black and low-income…
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January 21, 2019
In the past, we have fallen back to a centroid of the street when a given house number could not be found. We have however seen many cases where we are able to return a much better result by matching the location to a close neighbor house. This has prompted us to return nearest_rooftop_match as an alternative to street_center when possible. nearest_rooftop_match is always returned with a reduced…
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January 03, 2019
This means that API requests with the cd field append returns data for the 116th congress instead of the 115th. Legislators for the 116th congress are returned as well, courtesy of the @unitedstates project.
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December 14, 2018
Geocodio's API and spreadsheet upload tool now allow you to append data from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS). With the ACS data appends, you can match addresses and coordinates with Census data for demographics, education, veteran status, housing, and more. The data names and categories include: Demographics (guide, API docs) Total population Population by age range Sex…
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