geocoding service

The geocoding service is a ready-to-use service that can search for addresses, places, and businesses. It takes input text, such as an address, place, or business name, and returns a set of address candidates. Each candidate contains data such as the real address, location, match score, and other attributes. The service can also take an input location and return the nearest address, street intersection, point of interest (POI), or geographic place; this is known as reverse-geocoding. The geocoding service can also perform bulk geocoding, where many addresses are geocoded at once.