> Isn't this an ad for something you're selling? No. This is a demo of an open-source project that I've released for free. > To me it seems like something tha

> Isn't this an ad for something you're selling? No. This is a demo of an open-source project that I've released for free. > To me it seems like something that has been around for a very long time and is now being resold under a new label of "geocoding" That's just what this class of software is called. https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/overview https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/o... https://docs.mapbox.com/api/search/geocoding/ https://docs.mapbox.com/api/search/geocoding/ https://geocode.earth/ https://geocode.earth/ https://github.com/komoot/photon https://github.com/komoot/photon https://nominatim.org/ https://nominatim.org/ https://pelias.io/ https://pelias.io/ https://www.here.com/platform/geocoding https://www.here.com/platform/geocoding https://developer.tomtom.com/geocoding-api/documentation/geocode https://developer.tomtom.com/geocoding-api/documentation/geo... https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/ https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/ https://github.com/Qwant/mimirsbrunn https://github.com/Qwant/mimirsbrunn All of these call themselves geocoders. > 25 years ago tiny contained $100 GPS units had the entire US on a 2 GB flash card. Yeah! Super cool feat of engineering accomplished mostly by requiring you to do structured search, if I remember correctly. I never drove with one as they were a bit before my time. I remember them being very fiddly, but that was an observation I made from the back seat of a car as a child so, grain of salt. And yes to google maps offering this for free as a part of their maps client. Not free if you're a 3rd party software developer though, as you'll see if you click through the first link I posted above.