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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"

Like 12 January at 15:35 | Open on en.osm.town

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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!)

12 January at 15:36 | Open on en.osm.town

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

or of course you can just try out our API

12 January at 15:38 | Open on en.osm.town