Is there a way to convert mail address as Geopoint?

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I have a mailing address column in a dataset that needs to be converted into a geopoint to display it on a map.

Currently, I’m using an external REST API like Google Geocoding, which returns the latitude and longitude values.

Is there a way to do this directly within Pipeline Builder/Foundry?

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Yup! Just use our logical type cast board (input is a struct of doubles for lat and long)

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In my case I don’t even have latitude an longitude values.
User will input only address and a typical input looks like this.

[Address line 1]
[Address line 2]
[State] [Country] [Zipcode]

My issue is, how can I convert address to latitude and longitude before even going for Geopoint?

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Ah I see. Pipeline Builder doesn’t have an internal first class way of converting addresses to lat/long coordinates. I think you still need to use an external geocoding library like Mapbox in Google for your case

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Thank you. May be this can be considered for a feature request as many real world usecases start with address, not with latitude and longitude.

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This is a re-occurring feature request which is somehow not adressed by Palantir.

To my knowledge there is an internal process how Palantir FDEs can get mapbox tokens which means they don’t suffer/internalize the pain customers have when going through procurement processes.

This is my personal explanation why this FR is not prioritized.

https://community.palantir.com/t/mass-resolve-address-or-location-data-into-geo-coordinates/1165/2

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Thanks @nicornk . At the least, Palantir can self host “Nominatim” open source project and point pipeline builder transformations to that.

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