Notice Board
New functionalities August-24-2008: You can now perform batch lookups (standalone server only), retrieve all streets that cross a particular street, and much more... See our documentation section.

Quality enhancements January-09-2008: New datasets integrated into our software

Turn-key standalone geocoder for Canada and the USA June-06-2007: We have released a new standalone geocoding solution, emulating all the functionality of geocoder.ca in a closed network environment as a Turn-key solution.

Various Enhancements April-29-2007: Many improvements & additions
  • We have improved the coverage and quality of our geocoding engine by recognizing non-standard city names (for eg: NYC)
  • The reverse geocoding engine also returns the road or highway having the smallest vertical distance from the input point in addition to the nearest street civic address. (for eg: This Point)
  • We are also adding more reverse geocoding info such as returning the closest two streets on either side of a given location. This feature is still in beta.
In addition to new functionality we are re-designing parts of the algorithm to improve performance. Stay tuned.

More info for Reverse Geocoding USA March-21-2007: The reverse geocoder for the USA has been extended to return the county and metro area information.

Additions to Reverse Geocoding for Canada and USA Dec-14-2006: The reverse geocoder has been extended to return the nearest major street intersection to a given point, in addition to the nearest intersection for both the US and Canada.

Reverse Geocoding and Forward Geocoding for USA Sept-24-2006: We have added reverse geocoding functionality for the United States, expanding our coverage to most of North America (except Mexico). Similarly Forward geocoding for the US works as advertised on the API pages.

Multiple suggestions for the xml port Sept-07-2006: Now you can enter a partial address and obtain a predefined number of suggestions. See the API page for details.

Suggestion System Addition for mis-spelled street names June-22-2006: The suggestion system now works for street intersection queries also. In case one or two mistyped street names are entered and the system can not find a fairly close match, then a suggestion may be returned with the correct spelling of both streets. See the API page for details.

More Backup and redundancy June-19-2006: A new redundant backup server has been installed. Now the geocoder service is backed up at two geographically distinct locations. The address of the backup server is backup-geocoder.ca

Reverse Geocoding Addition June-16-2006: The reverse geocoder can now return the nearest street corner for a latitude longitude pair. If you are using the xml interface you must send the corner=1 parameter to obtain nearby street intersection information. See the API documentation for more informations.

More Intersections March-25-2006: You can now locate the intersection of Highways with other Highways or streets.

Standard Address Formating Feb-25-2006: We now return the standard address formating with a successful request. If you use the xml api to obtain geocodes, use the parameter standard=1 to obtain a properly formated address too. See the API page for details.

Alternate Spelling of road names and city names Feb-01-2006: Use our suggestion system. If we can not find a mis-spelled location we will provide a sugestion with the correct spelling.

NEW! - Backup and Redundancy of the real-time xml port Jan-21-2006: We have added a backup service at an independent location from our main isp (backup-geocoder.ca) . What that means is that in the unlikely event of the main server (geocoder.ca) being offline, you can redirect your queries to the redundant backup service: backup-geocoder.ca

Note: The backup location will _only_ process queries in the event of the main service being off-line. Otherwise it will simply re-direct your query to geocoder.ca. This is only intended to give more "peace of mind" for those who wish to integrate their applications in real-time with our geocoding port, and are worried of the eventuality of a service outage. In case you want to use this backup service you need to code a few extra lines of code into your application to call the backup service in case your application receives a networking error from the main service. _DO NOT_ use the backup service in case the main service can not locate a particular address. Both the main service and the backup service are identical in that respect! Contact us if you need further explanation.


Cross Street Geocoding! Oct-01-2005: Now you can also geocode street intersections.

NEW! Sept-11-2005: Due to popular demand we have added reverse geocoding.