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OpenCage 👉🌍

7/ One small reverse geocoding pet peeve - people often send our geocoding API ultra precise coordinates. Like nanometer level.

There is no real need for more than 6 places past the decimal, see:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_

#geoeducation

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OpenCage 👉🌍

8/ Next issue - privacy 🕵️🕵️‍♂️🕵️‍♀️

Geocoding super precisely is technically cool, but can at times be a real privacy issue.

For example a website might want to show a user's neighbourhood, not their specific home address.

Here's our guide to geocoding "coarsely"

opencagedata.com/guides/how-to

#geoeducation

OpenCage 👉🌍

9/ But by far the hardest part about reverse geocoding is that the world changes all day, every day.

There is continual new construction, demolition, address changes, changes of all kinds.

#OpenStreetMap alone has 5+ MILLION edits per day (keep up the good work everyone!)

OpenCage 👉🌍

10/ If you want to play around with the ideas from this thread, we have a tutorial on writing your own reverse geocoder

opencagedata.com/guides/how-to

or of course you can just try out our API

#geoeducation

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