Geocoding is the process of turning a human-readable address into a latitude/longitude coordinate. Reverse geocoding does the opposite — taking a coordinate and returning the address or the place (neighbourhood, city, province) that contains it.
Reliable geocoding depends on clean, standardized addresses. Neighbourly normalizes Canadian addresses into street components and stitches each one to the full geographic hierarchy, so a coordinate or address resolves instantly to its place — no runtime spatial join required.
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Geocoding is part of the Neighbourly data platform. Explore the API or browse the data layers.