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'''Address geocoding''', or simply '''geocoding''', is the process of taking a text-based description of a ___location, such as an [[Address (geography)|address]] or the name of a [[___location (geography)|place]], and returning [[geographic coordinates]] (typically the latitude/longitude pair) to identify a ___location on the Earth's surface.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Leidner, J.L. |title=International Encyclopedia of Geography |chapter=Georeferencing: From Texts to Maps |volume=vi|year=2017|pages=2897–2907|doi=10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0160 |isbn=9780470659632}}</ref> ''[[Reverse geocoding]]'' on the other hand converts [[geographic coordinates]] to the description of a ___location, usually the name of a place or an addressable ___location. Geocoding relies on a computer representation of address points, the street / road network, together with postal and administrative boundaries.
* Geocode (''verb''):<ref>"Geocode" term as a verb, as defined by Oxford English Dictionary at https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/geocode {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180426213141/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/geocode |date=26 April 2018 }}</ref> provide geographical coordinates corresponding to (a ___location).
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