9 Mar 2010

Google Geo Developers Blog: Introducing the new Google Geocoding Web Service

Geocoding - finding the geographical location of a given address - is one of the most popular features of the Google Maps API. Both the JavaScript Maps APIs and the Maps API for Flash include classes that enable applications to perform geocoding, and there is also a RESTful web service that offers the option of making geocoding requests from server side applications with output in both XML and JSON.
via googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com