Our team has compiled a list of the most useful and cost-effective Location APIs for your business.

This REST API allows you to access Earth Engine's multi-petabyte Public Data Catalog from analysis jobs running in Google Cloud Platform.

Google Earth Engine is a geospatial processing service. With Earth Engine, you can perform geospatial processing at scale, powered by Google Cloud Platform. The purpose of Earth Engine is to:

- Provide an interactive platform for geospatial algorithm development at scale
- Enable high-impact, data-driven science
- Make substantive progress on global challenges that involve large geospatial datasets


Google Earth Engine API

IP2Location™ IP Geolocation Web Service is a REST API providing a service to do a reverse IP location lookup of an IP address to an ISO3166 country code, region or state, city, etc.

IP2Location™ IP Geolocation web service is a REST API providing a service to do a reverse IP location lookup for ISO3166 country code, region or state, city, latitude and longitude, ZIP/Postal code, time zone, Internet Service Provider (ISP) or company name, domain name, net speed, area code, weather station code, weather station name, mobile country code (MCC), mobile network code (MNC) and carrier brand, elevation, usage type, address type and IAB category. To search, submit a query string and a set of parameters to the IP2Location™ REST API service and you will get the IP location lookup within seconds. Search results are derived from the IP2Location™ index of over 4 billion unique IP addresses.

IPv4 and IPv6 supported.

## Features
- No database to download, to install or to upgrade in the server-side
- Supports 25 different types of package queries with a different granularity of data.
- Supports additional information (optional), such as Olson time zone, translations and so on.
- Supports HTTP or HTTPS queries up to 100,000 times or 1 year (whichever comes first)

IP2Location REST API

With IPinfo, you can pinpoint your users’ locations, customize their experiences, prevent fraud, ensure compliance, and so much more.

The Trusted Source
for IP Address Data
With IPinfo, you can pinpoint your users’ locations, customize their experiences, prevent fraud, ensure compliance, and so much more.

Fast • Accurate • Trusted by 500,000+ businesses and developers since 2013.$

Here are some of the features of IPinfo:

- **Geolocation**
Pinpoint your users’ exact location, no matter where they are in the world.

- **ASN - ISP or network**
Find out which internet service provider your visitors are using.

- **Company**
Identify the company name and domain for whoever is using the IP address.

- **Carrier detection**
Find out the carrier name, mobile country code, and mobile network code details.

- **IP Ranges**
Find all IP addresses ranges assigned to a company, identified by the provided domain name.

- **VPN Proxy Detection**
We perform custom full internet wide scans to detect almost 10 million active VPNs.


IPinfo

Free IP API provides country, city, state, province, local currency, latitude and longitude, company detail, ISP lookup, language, etc.

**Free IP Geolocation API and Accurate IP Lookup Database**
Free IP API provides country, city, state, province, local currency, latitude and longitude, company detail, ISP lookup, language, zip code, country calling code, time zone, current time, sunset and sunrise time, moonset and moonrise time from any IPv4 and IPv6 address in REST, JSON and XML format over HTTPS.

**IP Geolocation API Core Features**

- **Globally Available (geoDNS)**
Our servers are Globally Available in countries including United States, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Australia, Singapore and India. We route requests to the nearest and fastest node using Cloudflare's Global Network.

- **Blazing Fast IP Lookup**
Speed matters a lot to us. We load our indexed DataBase in hot memory to avoid any disk and file operation. This makes us the fastest IP Geolocation service with average response time of less than 40ms.

- **Accurate and Updated Database**
We are continuously improving our Accuracy and keep our database up to date. We update our database multiple times per week.

- **Multilingual Response**
Our API supports response in multiple languages including English, German, Russian, Japanese, French, Chinese, Czech and Italian. Our multilingual portfolio is continuously expanding.

- **DDoS Protection**
We don't compromise on security. All of our API nodes have unlimited DDoS protection from Cloudflare.

- **99.99% Uptime SLA**
Backed by our redundant infrastructure, we provide 99.99% uptime SLA on all of our paid plans.





IP Geolocation API

Helping users accurately complete foreign address entries.

**International Address Autocomplete API**
_Deliver what your customers are expecting—buttery-smooth form fills. Helping users accurately complete foreign address entries results in happier customers._

Here are some of the core features of International Address Autocomplete API:

- **PREVENT POOR DATA FROM REACHING YOUR DATABASE**
Once a misspelled, fake or invalid address enters your database it's difficult to remove. International Address Autocomplete helps prevent poorly-entered data from infiltrating your database by suggesting accurate addresses in real time. Keep that database squeaky clean!

- **CREATE A SUPERIOR CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE**
Deliver what your customers are expecting—buttery-smooth form fills. Helping users accurately complete foreign address entries results in happier customers. Using International Address Autocomplete will reduce user frustration and ensure that you get the correct address.

- **EASY-TO-IMPLEMENT ADDRESS AUTOCOMPLETE TOOLS**
Say goodbye to the headache of implementing new software. We have intuitive documentation with plenty of examples and sample code that even your Grandma can understand—and she can barely code in Java. You’ll be up and running in no time.

- **INCREASE CONVERSION RATES**
The longer it takes visitors to fill out their entire address into your collection forms, the more likely they are to abandon them. With International Address Autocomplete you can provide a quick and painless way for your users to accurately enter their postal addresses, resulting in higher conversion rates and better user experience.

- **WORLDWIDE COVERAGE**
International Address Autocomplete’s vast repository of foreign addresses covers Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, France, and a whole slew of other countries. If you’re expanding your international efforts, address autocomplete services are imperative.

- **GLOBAL STANDARD ADDRESS FORMATS**
Managing innumerable address formats to match the postal authority standards of each country is enough to make anyone lose their mind. Smarty standardizes and parses each street address into the correct format for you—preserving your data’s integrity and your sanity.



International Address Autocomplete API

Retrieve instant, accurate information for any country in the world in lightweight JSON format.

**Reliable real-time country data API for your business.**
_Retrieve instant, accurate information for any country in the world in lightweight JSON format._

**The reliable country data solution**

- **Improves user experience**
Customize user experience by identifying accurately users’ country, city, language, and more.

- **Reliable**
Accurate country database based on official information from each country.

- **Easy to Integrate**
Delivered in portable JSON format for maximum usability, ease of integration, and compatibility with any programming language.

- **Extensive Country Information**
Provides accurate country data, including geographical position, population, codes, currencies, languages, flag images,phone number format, and much more

**Access to Worldwide Country Data, Developer friendly**

Get instant access to accurate country data for various geo-points in the world and enjoy a rich set of capabilities:

- Accurate Country API
- Forms Autocomplete
- Bulk API Endpoint



Countrylayer API

GeoDataSource Location Search is a REST API enable user to lookup for city name by using latitude and longitude coordinate.

**GeoDataSource™ Location Search Web Service**
GeoDataSource Location Search Web Service is a REST API enable user to lookup for city name by using latitude and longitude coordinate. It will return the result in either JSON or XML containing the information of the nearest country, region, city, latitude, longitude, currency code, currency name, currency symbol, time of sunrise, time of sunset, time zone and distance of input coordinate with the city. The GeoDataSource™ Location Search Web Service consists of two APIs, Nearest City API and Nearest Cities API. Nearest City API will only return one result whereas the Nearest Cities API will return the list of cities within 20km. Paid plan of this Web Service will be auto-renewed and auto-recharged monthly. Below please find the syntax.

**Comprehensive world major cities data such as feature designation, administrative division, population, and many more, for all countries around the world**
- **What is GeoDataSource?**
GeoDataSource.com offers the database of 3 million cities features for immediate online download. The databases come complete with feature names, latitude and longitude, region and country information and additional information spanning across 249 countries or territories in 6 world continents.

- **Why GeoDataSource?**
Complete and accurate world major cities database source. We update the data source every month to make sure your have the up-to-date information for your usage. Compatible with Major Database Systems
The database is available in ASCII text (TSV) format and can be easily imported into any relational database, such as SQL Server, Oracle, Access, MySQL, Postgre and any other database system in use today. This database can also be loaded into NoSQL for queries.

- **Free Support**
GeoDataSource.com provides free email support for all subscribers.



GeoDataSource Location Search API

Lob’s Address Verification APIs ensure that your addresses are deliverable and everything you send arrives at the right place

**Real-Time Global Address Validation**
Lob’s Address Verification APIs ensure that your addresses are deliverable and everything you send arrives at the right place, at the right time—every time.

**Accurate and Deliverable Addresses Across Your Systems**
- Increase conversion and eliminate mistakes with front-end autocompletion
- Reduce returned mail with global delivery verification
- Maintain evergreen database integrity with address standardization

**USPS CASS Certified Address Details at Your Fingertips**
- Access deliverability details such as missing unit information
- Identify P.O. Boxes and residential or commercial buildings
- Ingest precise delivery point latitude and longitude


**Address Standardization and Autocorrection to Eliminate Wasted Costs**
- Ensure accuracy by correcting mistakes and misspelled addresses
- Meet USPS address formatting requirements with data standardization 
- Prevent bad address data from causing downstream bottlenecks


**Features** 

- RESTful APIs
Implement developer-friendly tooling

- Front-end Autocompletion
Improve website usability and eliminate typos, for webpages across the world

- Global Address Verification
Access delivery data for over 240 territories, via API or CSV file

- USPS Metadata
Enhance your data with details such as vacancy, building type, and more

- Bulk API Endpoint
Process large quantities of data in a single API request

- Reverse Geocodes
Input latitude and longitude and receive possible addresses

- Lob Confidence Score
Leverage Lob’s extensive insight into mail tracking events

- Machine Learning
Increase accuracy with machine learning trained algorithms

- Address Elements
Add front-end address autocomplete and verification to any HTML webform in minutes

Address Verification API

Get the location of any IP with a world-class API serving city, region, country and lat/long data.

**IP Geolocation API**
_Get the location of any IP with a world-class API serving city, region, country and lat/long data._

- Worldwide coverage with 4 billion IPs
- Location data with leading precision
- Rich data including timezone and unicodes
- Real-time daily update

**Get the geolocation and other details of any IP address with Abstract**

- **Excellent data and worldwide coverage**
Our long-standing relationships with ISP's and other data providers enable us to provide highly accurate and consistent data that you will not find with other providers.
- **Daily updates to our data**
Having the latest data is important when you're using IP geolocation for key business processes, so we get the latest data each day to give you the most accurate results.
- **IPv4 and IPv6 coverage**
Our IP geolocation datasets cover both IPv4 and IPv6, as well as 1.75+ million locations across 225,000+ cities around the world, so you always have the most accurate results.
- **Timezone details included**
If you want to know the location of an IP, it may be helpful to know other details about it, like the timezone, current time, GMT offset, and more. That's all included in our responses.
- **Country flag and other details included**
The IP geolocation responses are also enriched with details about the country the user is location in, such as its flag (in SVG, PNG, emoji, and unicode), as well as other details.
- **Simple yet powerful REST API**
The IP Geolocation API is designed with the perfect balance of simplicity and powerful in a single, modern REST API. It's made to provide quick time to value and an excellent developer experience.
- **CSV upload available for bulk queries**
Not everyone will have the need or expertise to integrate directly with the IP Geolocation API, so Abstract provides an easy-to-use CSV upload tool.
- **Bank-level security for all queries**
Security is very important to us, so all data that is sent to Abstract's IP Geolocation API and processed by Abstract is secured by 256-bit SSL encryption (HTTPS).

IP Geolocation API allows you to locate and identify website visitors by IP address.

**IP Geolocation API**
_Our real-time IP Geolocation API lets you look up IP locations accurately._

IP Geolocation API allows you to locate and identify website visitors by IP address. IP location helps prevent fraud, customize web experiences, and maintain regulatory compliance.

**We offer precise and up-to-date IP data**
- **Content personalization**
Customize your website using dynamic banners in the user’s local language with his IP address on hand, which will allow you to provide unparalleled personal experiences to even first-time visitors.
- **Digital marketing**
In online marketing, geo-targeting is becoming a crucial tool that helps advertisers to target customers according to their country, region, or even city.
- **Access blocking**
Block those trying to access your website anonymously or resorting to other underhand means to collect data before you can take action to protect yourself.
- **Insurance against cyber fraud**
Fortify your infrastructure to prevent cyber attacks, assess potentially risky situations by considering the originating country, proxy or Tor usage and giving them a score.
- **Reinforced security policies**
Ensure that no API call is made outside your internal network by tracking users’ IP address and establishing rights and permissions based on location — that way better protecting and preventing the leakage of your most confidential, classified, or commercially-valuable data.

### RoadGoat Cities API
Welcome to the RoadGoat Cities API, featuring the world's most comprehensive database about travel destinations - towns, cities, regions, states, countries, and continents.

#### Destinations
The Cities API provides clean, hierarchical context about destinations all over the world.

#### What's In A Destination?
A place is so much more than a name. RoadGoat brings a place to life by painting an informed, robust, and meaningful understanding of what a place is all about.

#### State-of-the-art Technologies
RoadGoat uses advanced machine learning algorithms and synthesizes all the available information to provide the richest and most accurate context about over 4.3+ million destinations - from Indonesian megacities to remote English villages.

The RoadGoat Cities API gives access to the same great content that powers RoadGoat, one of the most dynamic travel sites on the web.

#### From Developers to Developers
From providing basic needs such as a location's photos and coordinates to more abstract context such as "known for" tags, budget ratings, and safety ratings, the RoadGoat API has you covered.


RoadGoat Cities API

Lookup postal codes, calculate distances and much more with our free zip code API.

### Free Access to Worldwide Postal Code Data
Zipcodebase.com is the perfect tool to perform postal code validation, lookups and other calculative tasks, such as postal code distance calculations. Zipcodebase offers a wide range of endpoints that give you access to any type of data you might need.

#### Lightning fast
Response times are everything. Our API is among the fastest you will find in the industry.
#### Up to Date
We constantly update and verify our data from multiple sources to ensure the accuracy of our data.
#### Easy-to-read REST-API
The API provides well structured JSON endpoints that allow you to integrate zipcodebase within minutes.
#### Available for all common programming languages
To provide you with the best developer experience possible, we also created a Postman collection that covers all of our endpoints.

Zip Code API

Locate and identify website visitors' info by IP address.

### What does our API do?
IP to Location API is a REST API which provides the essential data from any IP address in JSON format over HTTPS such as:

- Country / City / State / Continent.
- Latitude and Longitude.
- Local currency.
- Internet Service Provider (ISP) lookup.
- Country calling code and Time Zone.

#### Use cases for IP to Location API
Knowing from where people access you extends your brand’s reach through the market and helps you create a more accurate customer base. You can think of any service to relate with a user’s location information but here are the most popular location-based use cases:

- For geo-targeting your customers by content personalization.
- For any service that sends location-based push notifications.
- For mapping any social experiences through photos, trips, check-ins etc.
- For using targeted ads and any other location-based marketing purposes.
- For any kind of services offering solutions for local community needs such as healthcare, municipality, social services, transportation.

IP to Location API

IP Geolocation API lets you check IP location accurately.

Our IP Geolocation API service allows you to identify your web visitors and users’ geographical location. IP location helps customize web experiences, prevent fraud, ensure regulatory compliance, and more.
#### Our IP address location API retrieves:
**IP geolocation details**
For the given IP address, we retrieve its two-letter country code from ISO 3166, region, city, and postal code.
**Latitude and longitude**
Get the precise geographic location of the current IP address.
**Time zone offset by UTC**
Determine the time zone to which the IP address belongs in the “+10:00” format.
**GeoNames ID**
Assign a location identifier for the IP address according to the GeoNames database.
**...and much more!**
#### Practical usage
**Market research**
Easily turn your web server access logs or other server data containing IP addresses into valuable business information.
**Content personalization**
Give your users beautiful, tailored experiences based on their geolocation.
**Demographic targeting**
If you know where your customer lives, you can target ads based on demographic data related to that area.


Check reachability of any site/webpage from any country in the world.

#### What is the Reachability API?
If you wish to monitor your site's availability frequently, or build your own HTTP site status service, this is the API you'll need.

#### How it works
It will fetch the requested URL and return detailed information about the destination.

What is most important about this API is, you can specify the originating country as you wish. Just pass the country query parameter with the 2 character country code and viola! It will automatically assign an IP address from that country and fetch the URL.

This is especially useful for discovering network issues from different routes and build status pages accordingly.

#### Key Features
- Make a a request from 90+ countries.
- Provides response headers in raw format.


Reachability API

Searchable database of countries, cities, calling codes, currencies and a lot more.

#### What is a Geography API?
A Geography API is an Application Programming Interface that can be used by developers to retrieve data about geography or enable geographic functions for their own applications.
#### What does Geography API do?
Searchable database of countries, cities, calling codes, currencies and a lot more.
#### Main Functionalities:
- Get a city by name.
- Get a country by phone calling code.
- Get a country by its capital city.
- Get all the major cities of a country.
- Get the major cities by country and region or state name.
and much more!
### Key Features
- Fast response time.
- Up to date information.

The Top 5 Location Apis for Developers