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What's the terms on your forward geocoding? Many providers have terms that require live lookup of address->latlong, no caching permitted. My client's use case has long-lived addresses that may need to be mapped many times, and currently we're paying for one of the only geocoding services that permits us to persist the coordinates involved.


> and currently we're paying for one of the only geocoding services that permits us to persist the coordinates involved.

I'll ask blatantly: Which one is that?


Hi, we allow you to store geocoding results as long as you like: https://opencagedata.com


Our standard policy is that you can cache responses for up to 30 days: https://radar.com/documentation/maps/geocoding#caching


> Licensee shall not … store any address or point of interest data from Radar's geocoding, autocomplete, or place search APIs for more than thirty (30) days;

So if an e-commerce site user starts typing their address, it’s autocompleted via Radar, and the user confirms it, then the site must delete the user’s address after 30 days?

This seems wrong.


*crickets*


Thanks for the reply. I was reading docs but missed that somehow.




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