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Dev tools · October 7, 2020

Placekey

Unique ID for all physical places

Placekey launched on October 7, 2020 with 140 votes, #256 of 4,018 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

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What it does

it is REALLY hard to normalize postal addresses (because some can have >100 permutations). Placekey provides a unique ID on all physical places!

Placekey is a universal place identifier trusted by organizations, businesses, and geospatial scientists to easily represent and unify location data.

Enter an address to find the Placekey associated with that place. You can also try our API! Placekey is an identifier for any physical place, so that the data pertaining to those places can be shared across organizations easily. Placekey goes beyond just an identifier. It’s built with developers in mind who want geospatial data that is easily joined and combined…because real answers come from combining data from many different sources. ‍ When both parts of a Placekey come together, the final result reads as What@Where . This is a unique way of shedding light on both the descriptive element of a place as well as its geospatial position in the physical world via a single identifier. The Where…from placekey.io

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