Alternative geocode location search API providers (auto-suggest)
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It’s pretty easy to test the effectiveness of different geocode location search providers. Make a list of 10 or so different types of locations by business names like a walmart, fast food place, a fitness club, grocery store, a retail shop, a public park, local city hall, dmv, ymca, car dealer, church, etc, etc. Then compare if they show up by their business name as you type in the search box. Obviously, google maps API is going to be the best, but after $200 credit monthly they charge .005 per auto suggest session (0-100K) searches… so 100K searches after $200 credit would be monthly cost of $300 from Google places API billing.
I tested a handful of the auto-complete services using the same popular business name locations (USA business locations) and here are my findings:
- google maps (excellent)
- mapbox (pretty good for a free plan)
- geocode.earth (better than mapbox) 100K searches = $100
- openstreetmap (not good)
- geoapify (not good)
- here (not good)
Maybe people in different countries will have different experiences but these is a summary for how USA locations are in the geocode databases.
If anyone has any other suggestions for a very good geocode location search API that is very effective for auto-suggest by business name which is very affordable or free X calls/monthly please add to the list.
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