About Geocode API
Where free-text addresses become structured locations.
A geocoding API takes an address as a string and returns a structured result: a formatted address, separate components for street, number, postal code, city, region and country, a latitude and longitude pair, and usually a bounding box and a confidence score. Reverse geocoding does the opposite, turning a coordinate back into an address. Most providers cover the same global base map and differ on coverage depth in specific countries, refresh cadence and licensing.
The reason to land geocoded results in a warehouse is that addresses in your business systems were rarely typed by the same person twice. The same Brussels office shows up as three different rows in the CRM, the ERP and the shipping platform. A geocoding pass collapses those into one location, with stable lat-long that downstream models, dashboards and route planners can join on.