February 21, 2022
Working with political districts in Canada? Good news! Geocodio can now return provincial/territorial-level electoral districts (aka ridings). We already support national-level ridings and are excited to complete our options for electoral districts in Canada. Provincial ridings are available for both spreadsheet uploads and API. Please note: data for Nunavut is not available. Data returned for…
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February 09, 2022
Metabase is an open-source business intelligence suite that makes it easy for anyone in an organization to ask questions of data. This tutorial walks you through how to integrate Geocodio with Metabase to create maps to better understand your data. It includes Laravel (PHP) code samples to help you get off the ground quickly. Go to tutorial
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January 19, 2022
The Geocodio CLI is available for Linux, macOS and Windows. It can be used to geocode spreadsheets and monitor their status from the command line. You can use it from a ETL job or cronjob, or simply to easily queue up many spreadsheets at once. Download the latest release here and see more about how to use it here.
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January 13, 2022
With Geocodio, you can add current-year Census boundaries as well as historical boundaries for 2010-2020. Now, you can add County, Place, Tract and Block FIPS codes for the 2000 Census year as well. During the upload process, check the box for US Census Identifiers and select "As of the 2000 Census Year." Screenshot showing adding 2000 Census year boundaries to addresses or coordinates If you're…
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January 05, 2022
The new lists API lets you process spreadsheets up to 1GB in size via API. Similar to the spreadsheet feature in the dashboard, the spreadsheet will be processed as a job on Geocodio's infrastructure and can be downloaded at a later time via API. CSV, TSV, XLS, and XLSX spreadsheets can be geocoded via API. While a spreadsheet is being processed, it is possible to query the status and progress…
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November 17, 2021
v1.7 Released on November 12, 2021 Breaking: The state_legislative_districts key from the stateleg field append now returns an array of house and senate districts instead of a single object. The stateleg-next field append is back! Now returning a preview from upcoming state legislative district changes. As with congressional districts, we are updating district data on an ongoing basis as more…
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September 15, 2021
In order to make it easier to geocode in Google Sheets, we needed to have a way to display a simplified version of our API results that is only the address, accuracy information, latitude/longitude, and source, with only one result returned. To that end, we've added the format parameter. Currently, the only option is simple. Example of simple results If there are any other simplified formats you'd…
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May 03, 2021
Reveal, the non-profit newsroom from the Center for Investigative Reporting, used the Paycheck Protection Program data geocoded and enrich with Census data by Geocodio for their analysis of where PPP loans were granted. The federal Paycheck Protection Program, one of the largest financial bailouts since the Great Depression, promised to provide, in the words of then-President Donald Trump…
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February 15, 2021
Are you working with government data and need to add the 11-digit FIPS code -- that is, the FIPS code that goes to the Census tract level -- to addresses or coordinates? Geocodio now returns the 11-digit FIPS with all Census results. It is in its own column as "FIPS (tract)." We still provide the FIPS to the block level as well. You can upload a spreadsheet of addresses and add the 11-digit FIPS…
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February 15, 2021
Geocodio Unlimited comes with physical dedicated instances for each customer. For people with high-volume geocoding needs (over 5 million lookups per day), you can add additional physical instances to linearly increase your geocoding capability. Unlimited customers can now view their instance load, add/remove instances, and reassign API keys from the dashboard. This is in a new section called…
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