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Mapbox Has a Free Tier — Build Interactive Maps, Geocode Addresses, and Add Navigation to Your App
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Mapbox Has a Free Tier — Build Interactive Maps, Geocode Addresses, and Add Navigation to Your App

via Dev.to WebdevAlex Spinov3h ago

Mapbox gives you 50,000 free map loads per month, 100,000 geocoding requests, and 100,000 directions requests. That's enough for most apps. No credit card for the free tier. Get Your Free API Token Sign up at mapbox.com Go to your account → Tokens Copy your default public token (starts with pk. ) 1. Geocode an Address curl "https://api.mapbox.com/geocoding/v5/mapbox.places/1600+Pennsylvania+Ave+Washington+DC.json?access_token=pk.YOUR_TOKEN" Returns coordinates: [-77.0365, 38.8977] 2. Reverse Geocode (Coordinates to Address) curl "https://api.mapbox.com/geocoding/v5/mapbox.places/-73.9857,40.7484.json?access_token=pk.YOUR_TOKEN" 3. Get Directions curl "https://api.mapbox.com/directions/v5/mapbox/driving/-73.99,40.73;-73.98,40.75?access_token=pk.YOUR_TOKEN&geometries=geojson" 4. Python — Store Locator import requests TOKEN = " pk.YOUR_TOKEN " def geocode ( address ): url = f " https://api.mapbox.com/geocoding/v5/mapbox.places/ { address } .json " r = requests . get ( url , params = { " a

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