# Converting Addresses and Zipcodes to Geospatial Points

**URL:** <https://community.palantir.com/t/converting-addresses-and-zipcodes-to-geospatial-points/4627>\
**Category:** Ask the Community\
**Tags:** code-repositories, pipeline-builder\
**Created:** [July 29, 2025, 8:21pm UTC](https://community.palantir.com/t/converting-addresses-and-zipcodes-to-geospatial-points/4627 "2025-07-29T20:21:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![a0578bac2a683ca0b313](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/palantir/user_avatar/community.palantir.com/a0578bac2a683ca0b313/32/3262_2.png) [@a0578bac2a683ca0b313](https://community.palantir.com/u/a0578bac2a683ca0b313)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 8:21pm UTC](https://community.palantir.com/t/converting-addresses-and-zipcodes-to-geospatial-points/4627/1 "2025-07-29T20:21:45Z")

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How can we convert the Zipcode or regular address string into a Geospatial point to locate in the Map.

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**Author:** ![achung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d26b3c/32.png) [@achung](https://community.palantir.com/u/achung)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 8:32pm UTC](https://community.palantir.com/t/converting-addresses-and-zipcodes-to-geospatial-points/4627/2 "2025-07-29T20:32:44Z")

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Hi, there’s no first-class way to do this in Pipeline Builder today. You can create a UDF that queries an external API to get the corresponding coordinates for an address. There have been more detailed discussions on how to do this in the following community post:

[https://community.palantir.com/t/whats-the-best-way-to-do-geocoding-in-foundry/688/9](https://community.palantir.com/t/whats-the-best-way-to-do-geocoding-in-foundry/688/9)

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**Author:** ![mellerbeck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@mellerbeck](https://community.palantir.com/u/mellerbeck)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2025, 9:04am UTC](https://community.palantir.com/t/converting-addresses-and-zipcodes-to-geospatial-points/4627/3 "2025-07-30T09:04:40Z")

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Using an LLM to reverse lookup the address works surprisingly well

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**Author:** ![system](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/palantir/user_avatar/community.palantir.com/system/32/3_2.png) [@system](https://community.palantir.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2026, 9:05am UTC](https://community.palantir.com/t/converting-addresses-and-zipcodes-to-geospatial-points/4627/4 "2026-07-25T09:05:01Z")

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