geocoder.us find the latitude & longitude of any US address - for free

Beyond Geocoding!

Geocoding is just the start of what we can do!

Geocoder.us is currently run by Rich Gibson, Jay Longson, and Molly Gibson. It was created by Schuyler Erle.

We are all available for varous projects (details tk)

Looking forward?

As of Feb 2012 we are working on a reimaging of what Geocoder.us can do. We will continue with the basic geocoding, but we are looking to expand our geocoding services (congressional lookups, census data integration, distance and clustering, mapping) and to create a stronger link between the work we do on Geocoder.us and the other projects which we are all involved with.

For example, you almost certainly don't know that Molly and Jay created the NanoGigapan project of taking very large explorable images through a Scanning Electron Microscope, or that Jay is (imho :-) a brilliant experimental scientist now working on his EE PhD dissertation in Carbon Nanotubes, or that Molly interned for a summer at Carnegie Melon, and another at NASA Ames research center, graduated from Lewis and Clark University with a philosopy degree, and then worked two jobs, plus working on Geocoder.us, while taking Organic Chemistry, and Physics, and Microbiology, etc, and is scheduled to take the MCATs in May, 2012.

Schuyler has gone on to major stints with his code and ideas making major contributions in many open source geospatial projects. We'll add more links, but he is the only one of us (so far :-) with his own WikiPedia Page.

Geocoder.us History

Geocoder.us has its' roots in the NoCat community network. We had the problem of trying to determine line of site between different locations in order to create extended wifi links. We hacked a bit of code using the Census Tiger data for geocoding, and USGS Digital Elevation Model data, and we were able to determine with a fair bit of accuracy whether a radio link would work between two locations. It was magical! We were able to create networks and pass serious traffic with consumer radios, hacked antennas, and oen source software.

The Geocoder.us code and site was then created by Schuyler Erle while Schuyler, Rich Gibson, and Jo Walsh were working on the O'Reilly book Mapping Hacks: Tip and Tools for Electronic Cartography. It was originally intended as just another of 100 'Tips and Tools for Electronic Cartography.'

And now it has been running since May 2004.

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