A user enters an address manually You want to place a marker on a map You need to compute routes or distances between addresses Reverse geocoding works in the opposite direction — it takes latitude ...

The Google Maps API isn’t limited to sticking a pin in a map! We look at how to implement multiple map styles and perform reverse geocoding in your apps.

(AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez) Last March I wrote about an early experiment using Google’s Cloud Vision API to perform deep learning-powered geocoding of 20 million global news images.