Geoclient

Geoclient is an API for geocoding¹ locations in New York City. In addition to returning spatial coordinates, Geoclient provides access to a large variety of official NYC attribute data based on the type of location requested.

Geoclient relies on Geosupport, NYC's official geocoder of record, for primary geocoding services. Geosupport is a separate application written and maintained by the Department of City Planning.

Benefits of using Geoclient include:

• Platform-independent, stateless REST service for geocoding NYC locations
• Cloud-friendly, microservice architecture with deployment configuration for Kubernetes and other container-based runtimes
• Intuitive, thread-safe Java API for calling Geosupport's native C API in-process
• NLP for recognizing and parsing NYC-specific location types
• Better location recognition through configurable search algorthms and error handling
• Awesome low memory, high throughput performance suitable for batch geocoding

Documentation

See the website:

• Geoclient User Guide
• Javadoc

The big picture

Geoclient is written in Java and Geosupport is written in C. Geoclient uses the Java Native Interface (JNI) to call Geosupport's C shared libraries.

License

Apache 2.0

Footnotes

1. Wikipedia article about geocoding. ↩