Tag: Geocoding & Places API
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Names before numbers in reverse geocoding
Tap a tracked vehicle on a stretch of the Kriegsstraße in Karlsruhe and ask what address sits there. The honest answer is two things at once: the street name, Kriegsstraße, and the road number it also carries, B10. Up to now, either could come back at the top of the list.…
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Why a messy address used to be slow to geocode
Real address data is rarely clean. A single field arrives carrying a recipient’s name, a depot label, and a phone number, all crammed in beside the actual street and postcode. A person reads straight past the noise. A geocoder cannot, it has to account for every word before it can decide what the address really is.…
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A place that was really just a street
A user enters a postal code and receives a list of locations. Most of them are obviously correct. One of them is a location with a postal code that doesn’t actually exist.
Postal code points are composed of street segments, and where two postal codes meet or where two locations border each other, a single street segment may have attributes from both sides at the same time.…
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The center of a postcode is not its centroid
Where exactly is a postcode? When you only have the code and no street, a geocoder still needs to return a single point on the map. Until now, the Geocoding & Places API picked that point by calculating the centroid of all street segments assigned to that postcode.…
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Find the Place, Then Show It
On PTV Developer, POIs (Point Of Interest) are called Places, and you could already search for them with the PTV Geocoding & Places API. Two things are new now: you can search a whole category branch in one go, and you can show Places right on the map.…
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New Rate Limits for the Geocoding & Places API Active Are Now Live
The new per-second rate limits for our Geocoding & Places API that we announced on June 3 are now officially in effect.
What’s Now Active
We’ve transitioned from per-minute to per-second rate limits across all endpoints. This allows for more consistent traffic handling and better protection against sudden spikes.…