I am doing reverse geocoding for millions of records and I am having some records come back without an address match. When I input the Latitude and Longitude into other systems, I come back with an address. Here are some examples.
Latitude
Longitude
30.6445639
-87.9584942
30.6466151
-87.926657
30.6500806
-87.9269905
30.3760848
-87.8415639
30.3736629
-87.8391469
30.3753643
-87.8509789
30.3681971
-87.8418853
30.2237956
-88.0299899
30.628237
-87.9344217
30.5908336
-87.9531697
30.5523878
-87.9484604
Reverse Geocoding Does Not Find a Match
Hi Kiffany,
I checked these points and found they are far away from a street. In some special areas where our zip codes can’t cover, then no matched result will be returned. We have a zip codes area lists where you can find it in your Geocoder full dataset known as “zipBBX.txt”. I visualized those areas and some of your points:
I also checked some points on Bing Reverse API, looks like they also returns on a city level. OSM does good better, it will include a nearest road. Try nominatim.openstreetmap.org/reverse?format=xml&lat=30.5523878&lon=-87.9484604&zoom=18&addressdetails=1
Personally, I admit there are some enhancements possible on it like we can consider to return a city if none street matched, but that will be taken another days on it.
Hope it helps.
Thanks,
Troy