I love a good geocoder. That's a piece of software that turns a human-readable location, like "60 5th Ave, NYC," into latitude and longitude coordinates that are easy to plot on a map or feed into ...

From Wikipedia, Geocoding uses a description of a location, such as a postal address or place name, to find geographic coordinates. Reverse geocoding, on the other hand, uses geographic coordinates to ...

A judge will soon be asked to decide if collecting a list of postal codes constitutes copyright infringement. Canada Post has filed a lawsuit in federal court against Geolytica Inc., an Ottawa-based, ...

Hoping to drum up more interest in its line of spatial business intelligence (BI) software, a California company said today it is releasing the geocoder foundation as open-source. Orange, Calif.-based ...