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David

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services, 1 employee

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed September 2020

Fast and Accurate

PROS

Really easy implementation and very responsive support.

CONS

I've been using this software for several months, but I have no complaints to report.

Reasons for switching to LocationIQ

Price

Jordan

Computer Software, 2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed December 2020

The best solution for geolocation

Pretty good

PROS

Simple to use. Not expensive at all. Does the job.

CONS

it's nt easy to determine the city name.

Reason for choosing LocationIQ

cheaper

Reasons for switching to LocationIQ

expensive

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İsmail

Verified reviewer

Research, 501-1,000 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed March 2023

Recomended Geocoding Software

PROS

It is free and easy to use. Also, it is accurately locate postcodes.

CONS

It could find some postcodes geolocation. Also, it could dind open addresses for some country which doesn’t use postcodes such as Turkey.

Maciej

Computer Software, 1 employee

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed May 2020

Good way to know, where things are

PROS

I've installed a GPS in my car. To tighten my privacy and security I installed a dedicated server to handle notifications from my GPS. LocationIQ was my choice, because its license is available in various options - for my needs the free one was the best option. The accuracy of address determination it pretty good, although in dense urban areas it sometimes give false results. However, the value for money ($0 in my case) is very, very good. Free license is a good starting point. LocationIQ sends you weekly usage reports, which help you track the moment, when license upgrade is needed.

CONS

Sometime the accuracy lacks, especially in dense urban areas (in my home town address returned was 2 streets away, while other location services provided accurate location). Also sometimes usage reports can be confusing - especially when minutely limit sees to be reached, and device is configured to send reports twice a minute.

Karsten

Internet, 1 employee

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed March 2023

Perfect for finding locations

I use LocationIQ in conjunction with the Wordpress plugin mapsmarker Pro to find locations .

PROS

LocationIQ is the perfect solution to search locations for Open Streetmap. I use it in conjunction with the Wordpress plugin mapsmarker Pro.

CONS

I can't write anything negative about LocationIQ now. Try it yourself.

Alessandro

Telecommunications, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed February 2023

A great API for ReverseGeocoding

We are using LocationIQ reverse geocoding with the free plan since a couple of year.Now we are considering upgrading to a paying profile since our demands grew.

PROS

Easy to us API, free plan let you deeply test the functionalities, precision of reverse geocoding.Dashboards are great and email reports useful.No spamming, responsive support.

CONS

Speed limits for roads could be integrated and provided as an additional service.

Clifford

Computer Software, 2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed September 2020

Great Geocoding Tool

LocationIQ is, in my opinion, the best free service for internal geocoding for most companies. Commercialized and high-volume products are priced fairly, and US addresses & lat/lng coordinates have high fidelity. International addresses have improved significantly over time.

PROS

- Free version has suited our internal needs for geocoding some of our data, best free service I could find - Paid version is reasonable and straightforward. We would likely use if our usage ever spiked or we needed to offer commercial usage - API queries are flexible and help with Address Validation as well as geocoding

CONS

- There used to be significant problems with international addresses (we are a US company, but store some international addresses), but these have been vastly improved in the past few years - We haven't used the map utility in a while, but it was somewhat more difficult to implement and style than other similar tools. This was a couple years ago and may have improved.

Timothy

Computer Software, 1 employee

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed August 2020

Excellent geocoding API for open source project

PROS

The daily quota of geocoding requests in the free plan (10,000) was the highest I found when researching alternative products. This makes LocationIQ fantastic for an open source project that needs geocoding.

CONS

None, the REST API was very simple to integrate into my app and I have received no complaints from users regarding the geocoding functionality it provides.

Anonymous

1 employee

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed August 2020

Superb solution for device tracking

PROS

I use this for location tracking on mobile phones - so my home automation (Home Assistant) knows where the users are

CONS

None that I can remember

Reason for choosing LocationIQ

Free tier suited my requirements. full address location for my devices

Anonymous

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed August 2020

Good product for less money.

PROS

The price vs. features and it just works.

CONS

It takes a little while to setup, but when it setup it works, as it should be.

Reason for choosing LocationIQ

Google api, and other vendors.

Jonathan

Telecommunications, 1 employee

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed May 2020

Excellent service, ideal for tracking solutions

PROS

I use this software for reverse geocoding on private Traccar installation. I have not experienced any down time in the last 2 years.

CONS

The the returned addresses are not as detailed as other options and the post codes are not always correct.

Reasons for switching to LocationIQ

Google switched to a pricing model that is not suitable for small business use.

Eddie

Computer Software, 2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed May 2020

Reliable, affordable and fast geocoder for big and small companies

The overall experience has been great from day one. We have not looked back since adopting LocationIQ.

PROS

It is very easy to setup and works very well. I am impressed at how Reliable LocationIQ has been for us at EnVsion. We have not had any major issue since we started using it. Besides, the responses from our API calls are very swift, helping us provide amazing user experience.

CONS

Everything was very straightforward with LocationIQ, so there is nothing major to complain about.

Robert

Telecommunications, 11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed June 2020

Excellent Geocoding API, for free!

PROS

The main purpose for our use of LocationIQ was for geocoding coordinates in our fleet vehicle tracking application, Traccar. This function wasn't essential for us but a 'nice to have' and so the free option was perfect for us. It helped us to view a list of coordinates for where our fleet vehicles had travelled and roughly translate it to a readable address. We had initially tried some of Google's APIs but found them to be fairly expensive for our use of them and then I discovered LocationIQ. The setup process was very simple and our application had support built right in so it iwas just a case of copying the API key and a handful of details to get it up and running.

CONS

Nothing, it's perfect for our use and we couldn't wish for anything more in a free product.

Reason for choosing LocationIQ

Cost

Reasons for switching to LocationIQ

Cost

Chiel

Transportation/Trucking/Railroad, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed September 2020

Geocoding service

We use LocationIQ for reverse geocoding of our asset tracking and monitorion systems

PROS

Great service with easy integration as is a default nominatim service. Great service and low cost solution as backup for nominatim server.

CONS

None, we have selected this product specifically for our needs

Reason for choosing LocationIQ

Free tear package

Grzegorz

Information Technology and Services, 1 employee

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed July 2020

Great service for reasonable price

PROS

Reasonable pricing with awesome free tier. This allows us to use the service and upgrade to paid plan once our product adoption reaches certain threshold.

CONS

At some point the request per minute limit (free tier) was not stated clearly, but it is no longer the case.

Jasper

Renewables & Environment, 11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed August 2020

Location IQ

works great

PROS

Straight forward JSON API, reliable results

CONS

some confusion about scientific notation for numbers

Mary

Insurance, 10,000+ employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed May 2020

LocationIQ provides reliable Reverse Geocoding API data

The API LocationIQ was easy to use, and provides elusive Reverse Geocoding information that I can't find from other sources (I have lat/long and need city/state/zip).

PROS

I liked the ease of use the most, as well as the availability of the city/state/zip information for my latitude and longitude data.

CONS

I did not find any Cons with this API -- it had the information I needed, and the documentation I needed to get that information.

Andrew

Program Development, 2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed July 2020

It is a very good, reliable reverse geocode service with a decent free tier.

We've integrated it with several other geocoders, it is still one of the most reliable ones out there.

PROS

Integration was easy and straightforward, the reliability is excellent.

CONS

Sorry, but I don't have anything against this service.

Justin

Computer Software, 11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed September 2020

Best API i use for all clients

Great experience no spammy emails only one asking me to review. I get weekly metrics and analytics which is great to send to customers

PROS

With constant uptime and an insane amount of free calls being allowed this has been a setup and forget its running since the start. Easy to setup and reliable enough to forget about it. Theres probably something wrong with your code, not LocationIQ

CONS

Not really any cons, being in a third world country its quite expensive but still very relative to other players in location api market

Reason for choosing LocationIQ

The huge amount of free api calls

Reasons for switching to LocationIQ

A lot easier to setup, a lot less code on the front side, constant monitoring is needed cause sometimes rate limits are hit

Hans

Telecommunications, 1 employee

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed September 2020

Home geofencing and tracking

PROS

Really easy to deploy, using it in Traccar

CONS

The free limit that I sometimes come up to, but its really not a dislike since service should cost money!

Mickael

Computer Software, 2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed August 2020

Really Accurate

PROS

Locationiq is very accurate, blazing fast and really easy to implement

CONS

Nothing, it's perfect and suit all my needs.

Carl

Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed February 2023

Great product

PROS

It’s extremely reliable, more so than we’ve used in the past. Great free and inexpensive options.

CONS

Nothing, we love the product and will use in the future

Anonymous

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed February 2023

Very helfpul free geocoding service

PROS

The api is easy to use and handle most api requests successfully.

CONS

There is not much I do not loke about the geocoding api.

Nicolò

Information Services, 2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed June 2021

Super easy implementation and top notch customer service

PROS

Documentation, pricing and customer service have been great

CONS

Not much against, we've been able to do everything we needed

Reason for choosing LocationIQ

Pricing and documentation

Geraldine

Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed August 2020

Excellent

PROS

It's free for te tier and does its job very well

CONS

None so far. It was a shift from an expensive supplier and this does the same job inexpensively.

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