# What's the best way to do geocoding in Foundry?

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**Created:** [July 10, 2024, 5:24pm UTC](https://community.palantir.com/t/whats-the-best-way-to-do-geocoding-in-foundry/688 "2024-07-10T17:24:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![joe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9e5f3/32.png) [@joe](https://community.palantir.com/u/joe)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2025, 1:28pm UTC](https://community.palantir.com/t/whats-the-best-way-to-do-geocoding-in-foundry/688/9 "2025-06-17T13:28:53Z")

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While Nominatim works technically, please remember it’s a free service run by volunteers. Respecting their rate limits is essential (1 request / second + need to specify an identifiable user-agent / email so they can contact you if something goes wrong).

For higher throughput geocoding, consider these alternatives:

- Mapbox (https://www.mapbox.com/geocoding)
- Google maps (https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/overview)
- Self-hosting Nominatim (possible in Foundry but challenging; only worthwhile for processing millions of addresses)
- Other commercial geocoding services

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