I love a good geocoder. That's a piece of software that turns a human-readable location, like "60 5th Ave, NYC," into latitude and longitude coordinates that are easy to plot on a map or feed into ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. When we talk about “geocoding” we most commonly refer to textual ...

Not all geocoding news is for the paranoid, some examples of geocoding software are just plain great -- like Jeffrey Friedl's new plugin to add geodata in Adobe's Lightroom photo management software.