Does Leaflet provide Geocoding service?

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I am considering the replacement of Google Maps with Open Street Maps and the Leaflet JS API. Does the Leaflet JS API provide a Geocoding service?

score 16 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 18 '12 at 20:09

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Leaflet itself does not provide geocoding services, but you can look at Nominatim for example. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim

answered Mar 18 '12 at 20:09

Ubergesundheit

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score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 16 '12 at 00:51

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I found a Leaflet plugin that works great. It's a Bing geocoder which you'll need your own key for https://github.com/sa3m/leaflet-control-bing-geocoder

answered Aug 16 '12 at 00:51

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 10 '13 at 23:19

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I have fallen in love with the Mapbox Geocoding API -- they do a great job of aggregating a lot of data sources that would be a pain for me to aggregate on my own. I found it to do a better job of reverse-geocoding than Nominatim. If I ever needed to build out my own geocoder, Nominatim would be a great place to start, but for most projects it feels to me like overkill.

answered Jan 10 '13 at 23:19

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From Mapbox docs (unless have granted access to mapbox.places-permanent): Supports 1 geocode per request. Must be displayed on a Mapbox map. Which is not gonna work if used with leaflet API. Also coverage is quite low, having only 13 countries. – Ivar Jul 23 '15 at 11:05

Does Leaflet provide Geocoding service?

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