FREE Client Side Reverse Geocoding to City API

The Free Client-side Reverse Geocoding to City API is a free version of Reverse Geocoding to City API which is strictly limited to the client-side implementations only.

A client-side application often requires making external API calls from a script language code, visible to a third party, like javascript for example. Utilising authenticated API requests on such can compromise security. Therefore, to protect our customers, we've decided to offer client-side implemented Reverse Geocoding with no API key required, hence totally for free.

IMPORTANT! The API is to be used ONLY for client-side implementation. Any user detected abusing the service by implementing it on server-side will be blacklisted from all of our free API Services. If you wish to utilise this Reverse Geocoding API in your backend applications, please visit our server-side variation of this API for details.

Fair Use Policy for Client-side implementation

There are two main categories of the client-side application allowed for this API:

1. You're allowed to make free and unlimited API calls from the client's web browser
2. You're allowed to make free and unlimited API calls from client's mobiles such as iOS, Android or IoT devices

Dos:

• Use the API with HTML5's Geolocation API to identify the user's locality information. You can read about how you can do this in more detail in our blog here.
• Use the API with the respective mobile platform's current location services to identify the user's locality info.

Don'ts:

• Apply the API on stored geo-coordinates values from a file
• Create a service which converts geo-coordinates to location information in bulk

For example, check out our free Where am I? iOS and Android app. The app demonstrates how you can implement the API for a mobile app to obtain real-time locality information for your users.