Address to Coordinates turns a free-text address — a full street address, a city, or anything in between — into a latitude and longitude pair. Type what you have, in whatever form it's in, and MapGO matches it to the closest thing it can find, returning the coordinates alongside a match score and a plain-English explanation of that score.
The same panel has a second mode, Clean Address, for when you don't need coordinates at all — just a tidied, completed version of an address you already have. Paste it as one line, however messy, and switch modes without leaving the tool.
Both modes lead with a standardised address: one clean line, written the way the country it belongs to writes addresses — the house number before the street in the United Kingdom, after it in Poland, the ZIP code after the state in the United States — with a copy button beside it and the same address broken into its individual fields underneath.
How it works
Every match comes back with a cleaned set of address components — house number, street, postcode, city, district, region and country — with MapGO's own administrative boundary data used to fill in whichever of those the match itself didn't supply, and the filled-in fields marked so you always know what came from your input versus what MapGO added.
The match score runs 0 to 100 and is shown as a band — High, Review or Uncertain — never as a percentage or a probability, because match quality genuinely varies by country and by how much of the address you gave it. The accompanying reason explains the score in plain English: a missing house number, an ambiguous street name, a locality-only match, and so on, rather than leaving you to guess.
How to use the Address to Coordinates Tool
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Open the address tool
Open the MapGO workspace and choose Address from the Analyze tools, or use the shortcut Q.
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Type the address
Enter as much or as little of the address as you have — a full street address, just a city, or anything between. An optional country code narrows ambiguous searches, such as a street name that exists in more than one country.
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Read the match and the score
The result shows the matched coordinates, a match score with its band, and a plain-English reason explaining why it scored the way it did.
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Check what MapGO filled in
The cleaned address lists every component the match resolved, with the fields MapGO added or corrected marked so you can see exactly what changed.
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Switch to Clean address, if you just want tidied text
Toggle to Clean address and paste the address as a single line — something like "12 florianska krakow poland" is enough. You get back a standardised one-line address in that country's own order, plus its separated fields, with no coordinates involved.
What people use it for
Preparing addresses for a map
Turn a list of customer, site or delivery addresses into coordinates you can plot, buffer or measure against.
Verifying an address before you rely on it
Check that an address entered on a form or pulled from a spreadsheet actually resolves, and how confidently, before it's used for shipping, billing or scheduling.
Filling gaps in incomplete records
Complete a partial address — missing a postcode, a region, or a house number — using MapGO's own boundary data rather than leaving it blank.
Real estate and site listings
Get coordinates for a property address to plot it on a listing or a site map, alongside the match score so you know how well it resolved.
Tidying addresses that arrived as one messy line
Paste an address someone typed into a free-text box — no capitals, no commas, fields in whatever order — and get back a standardised line written the way that country writes addresses, with every field separated out.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a match score?
- A 0–100 score reflecting how confidently MapGO matched your input to a real address, shown as a band — High, Review or Uncertain — never as a percentage or a probability. Every result also carries a plain-English reason explaining the score, such as a missing house number or an ambiguous street name.
- How accurate is the match?
- It depends on the address and the country. MapGO tells you the precision level of the match — down to house number, street, postcode or just a locality — rather than promising a precise pin every time. House-number level matching is less consistent in some countries, including the US and Canada, than in others; the score and reason are there so you can judge each result rather than assume the best case.
- What does "filled" mean in the cleaned address?
- It marks a field MapGO added or corrected rather than one you supplied — for example, filling in the region and country from its own administrative boundary data when your input only gave a city and postcode.
- Are there daily limits?
- Yes. Anyone can try it without an account, at 5 lookups a day; signing in for a free account raises that to 10 a day, and paid plans get a larger daily allowance on top.
- Can I clean an address without geocoding it?
- Yes — switch to Clean address in the same panel and paste the address as one line. It returns a standardised address and its separated fields without requiring or returning coordinates.
- Why is the standardised address in a different order from what I typed?
- Because it is written the way that country writes addresses, not the way the input happened to be arranged. A British address puts the house number before the street and the postcode after the town; a Polish one puts the number after the street; a US one puts the ZIP code after the state. The standardised line follows whichever convention belongs to the country of the match.
- Where does the address data come from?
- Matches draw on structured place and street data, including OpenStreetMap-derived data, combined with MapGO's own administrative boundary data for the region, district and municipality fields.