Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Services

Address matching

Address matching, also called geocoding, is the process of relating an address to a geographic location (such as latitude/longitude coordinates) or geographic area (such as census tract, block group, block, or ZIP code). The sites listed below provide online geocoding services.

• Free Geocoding Utilities from GPS Visualizer - please note the Yahoo! maps API Terms of Use
  
  
• Free Multi-Address Geocoder from Batchgeo - please note the Google Maps/Google Earth APIs Terms of Service
  
  
• Geocoding Services from Texas A & M University Geography - also available is a list of other geocoders.
  
  
• ArcGIS explorer online: Drag and drop csv spreadshets from Excel into the application to map addresses or latitude/longitude locations. Click here for more information.