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OpenStreetMap: where the map meets the territory

We want to occasionally use this blog to shine a light on projects we support and genuinely think are doing good, important work. These are not product announcements or partner...
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Coming soon: Geometry API

You’ll soon be able to retrieve high quality geometry information for the boundaries of countries, cities, and other administrative areas from our new Geometry API! Early access sign ups are...
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The exactitude of postcodes

A question we get all the time is: why doesn’t this street record include a postcode? Postcodes are one of those things people assume are straightforward but are actually pretty...
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New tools for managing API key rate limits

You can now set a separate per-second rate limit for each API key, bringing new flexibility.
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Improved Postalcode Coverage in France and Spain

We’ve added tens of thousands of postalcodes from Eurostat, filling in coverage gaps in France and Spain.
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WhosOnFirst GeoParquet Downloads

To celebrate the release of DuckDB v1.1.0 we’re now publishing regular updates of the WhosOnFirst Gazetteer in GeoParquet format.
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Announcing Overture Maps POI Beta

Today we are announcing a new (beta) feature: the addition of 60 million Points of Interest from the Overture Maps Foundation.
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Algolia Places Sunset

At the end of 2020, Algolia announced that they will be discontinuing their Algolia Places service in May 2022. Our autocomplete service is a great alternative for Algolia Places which...
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Rate Limiting & Rate Throttling

Making some simple tweaks to your application can result in significant cost savings. In this blog post I’ll cover both server-side and client-side strategies you can adopt to reduce your...