Glossary

Reverse Geocoding

Turning a latitude/longitude coordinate into the address or place that contains it.

Reverse geocoding is the opposite of geocoding: instead of turning an address into a coordinate, it takes a coordinate and returns the place it falls within — an address, neighbourhood, city or province.

Neighbourly reverse-geocodes a point to the most specific boundary that contains it, using point-in-polygon queries against its geopolitical hierarchy — for example, resolving a GPS location to its neighbourhood slug.

Reverse Geocoding is part of the Neighbourly data platform. Explore the API or browse the data layers.

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