Geocoding API for Delivery and Logistics

Every delivery starts with an address typed by a human, and every routing engine works exclusively with coordinates. Geocoding is the bridge between the two, and in logistics it earns its keep three times over: at order time, across your existing database, and live on the road.

1. Validate Addresses at Order Time

The cheapest failed delivery is the one you catch before dispatch. Geocoding the address the moment a customer submits it does two jobs at once: it confirms the address resolves to a real location, and it normalizes the components (street, house number, postal code, city) so your system stores clean data instead of free text.

import { ExoAPI } from "@flower-digital/exoapi-sdk";

const exoapi = new ExoAPI({ apiKey: "<your-api-key>" });

async function validateOrderAddress(input) {
  const res = await exoapi.geocoding({ address: input });
  if (!res.houseNumber || !res.postalCode) {
    // Ask the customer to confirm - the address resolved only partially
    return { ok: false, suggestion: res.address };
  }
  return { ok: true, lat: res.lat, lon: res.lon, normalized: res };
}

Store the returned coordinates with the order - with ExoAPI you are allowed to keep them - and your dispatch, routing and ETA systems never need to geocode that order again.

2. Batch-Geocode Your Existing Customers

Routing engines, territory planning and delivery-density analysis all need your historical addresses as coordinates. A one-off batch job handles it:

import { ExoAPI } from "@flower-digital/exoapi-sdk";

const exoapi = new ExoAPI({ apiKey: "<your-api-key>" });

for (const customer of customers) {
  const res = await exoapi.geocoding({ address: customer.address });
  await db.customers.update(customer.id, { lat: res.lat, lon: res.lon });
}

Daily quotas scale with the plan - 1,000 requests/day on Starter (9€/month) up to 50,000/day on Enterprise - and because results are stored in your own database, the batch runs once. A 30,000-customer backlog fits inside a single month of the Starter plan.

3. Track Vehicles With Reverse Geocoding

Driver apps and GPS trackers report raw coordinates. Reverse geocoding - included in the same subscription - turns them back into something dispatchers and customers understand:

const position = await exoapi.reverseGeocoding({
  lat: 51.5237,
  lon: -0.1585,
});
// "Your driver is near Baker Street, London NW1 6XE"

The same call powers "delivery arrived in " notifications and clean, human-readable audit trails of every stop.

Why Logistics Teams Pick ExoAPI

• Flat pricing - delivery volumes spike (holidays, promotions); a fixed monthly price means the geocoding bill does not spike with them.
• Results are yours to keep - geocode each address once and reuse it across dispatch, analytics and invoicing.
• Forward and reverse geocoding in one subscription, alongside every other ExoAPI API (QR codes for parcel labels, HTML-to-PDF for delivery notes).
• Worldwide coverage from regularly updated OpenStreetMap data.

Start a free 14-day trial - no credit card required - and geocode a sample of your delivery addresses today.