We're thrilled to announce the general availability of Geocoding v6 – the latest and most powerful iteration of Mapbox Geocoding API. Since its private preview, customers and developers have benefitted from significant enhancements like unit-level geocoding, batch geocoding, and advanced analytics features. This release brings additional value for businesses across many industries.

Geocoding v6 key benefits

• Find apartment units and businesses suites: Unit-level geocoding facilitates precise pickup and dropoff experiences, and enables validation of exact customer addresses including apartments and business suites. Geocoding v6 is launching with coverage of 5M multi-unit buildings and over 20M unique units in the US.‍
• Geocode high volumes efficiently: Batch geocoding allows customers to easily send large amounts of geocodes in a single request. It has improved performance by allowing up to 1,000 queries to be sent in the same request.‍
• Geocode in Japan with enhanced coverage: Geocoding in Japan has been dramatically improved, with industry-leading accuracy and coverage of over 99% of Japanese addresses.‍
• Query for higher accuracy and understand result confidence: Structured input allows forward address queries to be labeled by component parts to get more accurate results. Break down your address by component parts (street number, street name, etc.) for even more precise geocoding with structured input. Structured input provides higher accuracy when working with well-organized address data, while the new Smart Address Match object helps to understand the geocoder’s response quality in detail and helps identify problematic addresses.‍
• New quality of life features for developers: Permanent geocoding is now self-service and available to all Mapbox customers who need to cache responses. The API response object is friendlier, thanks to a geographical context object with named properties. A stable and unique Mapbox ID is available for caching and lookups via the Details API.

Geocoding powers On-Demand Logistics, Business Intelligence, and beyond 

‍Mapbox Geocoding empowers a wide range of businesses, from large enterprises to independent developers. It fuels success in diverse industries like on-demand logistics, business intelligence, asset tracking, photo and content services, retail, e-commerce, weather forecasting, and beyond.

On-Demand Logistics

Instacart optimizes deliveries with Mapbox Geocoding, ensuring shoppers are routed to the correct store and delivery address. Accurate addresses are crucial for successful order completion. Mapbox's industry-leading Maps, search and address matching ensure pinpoint accuracy.

E-commerce businesses can streamline checkout with Mapbox Geocoding's built-in autocomplete, now with support for apartment units. Customers can complete transactions faster by providing accurate address suggestions and validating the complete address during checkout.

“I've been using v6 for a couple of months and love it. The structured input has vastly improved the accuracy for UK address lookups.” - Co-founder of Love Jars, Trevor Lorkings

Business Intelligence and beyond 

For businesses that analyze large amounts of data (like business intelligence companies), features like batch geocoding and structured input make it faster and easier to process high volumes of location information. 

‍Hyperplan empowers users with insights for exceptional visibility on agricultural production. This innovative company helps farmers manage their land and make smarter decisions. They combine Mapbox Maps, Boundaries, and Geocoding to give their users the precise location details and insights they need to succeed.

Businesses across a wide range of sectors leverage the power of location intelligence tools from Mapbox to unlock new opportunities and enhance customer experiences.

Adobe uses Mapbox reverse geocoding to automatically embed precise geolocation data within photos and videos. This functionality streamlines workflows and benefits travel and social media marketing initiatives.

In the retail space, businesses are employing Mapbox to develop accurate and user-friendly store locators, ensuring a seamless customer journey in finding desired physical locations.

‍Weather forecasting companies such as The Weather Company rely on fast and accurate reverse geocoding by Mapbox to deliver a staggering 20 billion daily forecasts on their maps. This enables millions of users worldwide to make informed decisions based on real-time weather conditions.

"Everything I have used has worked well from the beginning. I have had a great experience using Mapbox (Geocoding)...Keep making our lives easier. Thanks Mapbox." - Jesús Arellano, GBRTechnologies

Enhance location searches: choosing between Geocoding API and Search Box API

Mapbox Search offers a comprehensive product portfolio to meet your business needs. Mapbox Geocoding API provides access to address and place (cities, postcodes, states, neighborhoods) The Search Box API offers a broader scope, including results for POIs, categories, and brands, along with features like Search Along a Route.

Get Started with Mapbox Geocoding v6

All Mapbox customers can start using the v6 API today. In addition to the features mentioned above, some endpoints, parameters, and response properties have changed. See the documentation for more details.

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