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Danke. I wonder about making one's business dependent on such services however.


It's possible these days to run an entirely open source geocoding stack of your own. Here's one of the better options for that: https://github.com/osm-search/Nominatim

I wouldn't recommend it though: it needs a beefy machine and applying updates on an ongoing basis is fiddly. Better to use a commercial option and have that as an escape hatch.




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