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Available Geocoding Software

Services › Geocoding › Desktop Client

The Texas A&M Geoservices Geocoder is a work in progress that functions well in many cases but may fall short in others. As more development takes place we hope to increase the former and decrease the latter. If you find our service does not meet your needs, the following list of available geocoders can guide you toward other available options.


Last updated - July 1, 2013


Online primary source free geocoders
These geocoders are free and appear to do their own geocoding

Name Free Limit API Reference Data Notes
Texas A&M Geoservices Geocoder 250/mos
(unlimited for partners)
yes Several  
Geocoder.us 50,000/day yes TIGER  
Yahoo 5,000/day yes Navteq  
Google 15,000/day yes TIGER + Others  
FFIEC 1 at a time no TeleAtlas  
Geonames.org 20,000/hr yes Unknown  
diddlefinger Japanese geocoding
maps.huge.info unlimited but one at a time no TIGER
multimap 1% of the community's total traffic yes possibly microsoft maps.live.com European coverage
Nearby.org.uk 50-100 requests an hour US, UK Postcodes
ViaMichelin.com 1000 per day coverage: worldwide
bromit.com unlimited no batch and single geocodes
Travel GIS 1 free no NAC Geographic Products Appears to support 26 counties and "universal addresses"
GeocodeFarm 100 per day yes Several coverage:worldwide
MapLarge API 1000 per day yes TIGER + Others coverage: US Only for api, international coming soon, available on request for custom jobs. No restrictions on how geocoded data is used
HERE 10,000 per day yes HERE Maps coverage: Worldwide


Online secondary source free geocoders
These geocoders are free and appear to use other free service to do their geocoding

Name Free Limit API Source Notes
BatchGeocode.com 5000/day no Yahoo Supports batch and single geocoding. Nice interface for pasting data into form. Allows you to map your fields and validate your input data.
ZipMgr.com 10/day no Ajm Software
Worldkit geocoder   no geocoder.us, Geo::PostalCode, jibble.org, GEOnet Names Server
MyGeoposition.com/   no Appears to be Google  
Itouchmap.com   no Google, USGS, NGA  
GPSVisualizer   no Google and Yahoo Supports batch and single geocoding. Nice interface for pasting data into form. Allows you to map your fields.
Map Channels   no Google Single and batch geocoding
Map24 (Navteq) 10000/day yes Navteq
OpenGeocoding.org unlimited, one at a time no Google and Yahoo Can output in many formats: map, xml, json, csv, kml
Placemarks.net 50/day no Google Allows users to upload xls and open office files of data, checks them, geocodes them, and outputs kml
SteveMorse.org   no google, geocoder.us, ibegin, locatient, terraserver, yahoo Sngle and batch, compares the outputs from different geocoders
Topo.ly 10,000 per day no google Maps address data from spreadsheet


Online primary source pay geocoders
These geocoders charge a fee and appear to do their own geocoding

Name Free Limit/Cost API Reference Data Notes
TeleAtlas EZ-Locate 100 free, 25,000 for $410 - 100,000 for $1,535 yes TeleAtlas
NAC Geographic Products 1,000 addresses for 39 euros yes Microsoft MapPoint Web Service Appears to support 26 countries and geocode "universal addresses".
ThinkGeo   no   60 day trial version
Spatial Insights One-time Setup fee: $2,500.00, monthly minimum: $200.00 for 15,000 no    
TerraPages   yes G-NAF Australia geocoder
Geocoda $49/month minimum yes Not Listed  
GeocodeFarm ($25/25,000) - ($50/50,000) - ($75/100,000) yes Several  
MapLarge API 2,000-4,000records: .004/geocode $10-16 total 10,000,001+records: .0005/geocode $9000+ total yes TIGER + Others  
HERE 10,000/day free. For licensing options please see: Getting Started yes HERE Maps coverage: Worldwide


PC-based primary source free geocoders
These geocoders are free and appear to do their own geocoding

Name Free Limit Reference Data Open Source Notes
Maps Online   TIGER no A SAS based geocoder
SRC Geocoder   TIGER yes  
Postal Address Geo-Coder PAGC   unknown yes  


PC-based primary source pay geocoders
These geocoders charge a fee and appear to do their own geocoding

Name Cost Reference Data Notes
Manifold Systems $275 - $1000 depending on version    
ArcGIS Desktop Geocoding cost of ArcGIS license    
Geobase      
IMapTools $3000 TIGER  
Geolytics 1 million addresses/$1195 - unlimited $5975   API access $6,000/year - $30,000/year
Pitney Bowes Group1      


PC-based secondary source free geocoders
These geocoders are free and appear to use other free service to do their geocoding

Name Notes
VB Wrapper around geocoder.us Example of how to call geocoder.us from an application
c# wrapper around geocoder.us Example of how to call geocoder.us from an application
Oracle wrapper around geocoder.us Example of how to call geocoder.us from oracle
Excel wrapper around yahoo geocoder Example of how to call yahoo geocoder from Excel
SQL Server Wrapper around yahoo and google geocoders Example of how to call yahoo and google geocoders from SQL Server
SQL Server Wrapper around yahoo and google geocoders Example of how to call yahoo and google geocoders from SQL Server
GeocodePro Wrapper to call Bing, Yahoo, Mapquest, etc.

If you have other geocoders to add to this list, please let us know
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