Location · API

Address & Geocoding

Forward-geocode an address to coordinates, or autocomplete and normalize postal addresses worldwide.

GET /v1/geocode/forward

200 OK

{
  "query": "1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View",
  "latitude": 37.4224,
  "longitude": -122.0841,
  "formatted": "1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043",
  "country_code": "US"
}

Capabilities

Why teams use it

Forward geocoding

Turn any address into precise latitude and longitude.

Autocomplete

Type-ahead address suggestions as users type.

Normalization

Clean, standardized, deduplicated addresses.

Structured components

Street, number, city, postal code and country.

Global coverage

Address data across 240+ countries.

Batch-ready

Geocode many addresses in one request.

Request

Call it in your language

curl "https://api.locanium.com/v1/geocode/forward?q=1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_..."

Response

What you get back

latitudenumber
Latitude
longitudenumber
Longitude
formattedstring
Normalized address
streetstring
Street
citystring
City
postal_codestring
Postal code
country_codestring
ISO country code
confidencenumber
0–1 match confidence

Use cases

What you can build

Location family

IP Geolocation GPS Geolocation Timezone Currency Exchange Language Detection Public Holidays

Full parameters, errors and code samples are in the API reference.