# LocationIQ Reviews **Vendor:** Unwired Labs **Category:** [GIS Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/gis) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 25 ## About LocationIQ Trusted by 100K+ developers, LocationIQ offers a suite of services that provides for powerful geolocation experiences that are reliable, affordable, and scalable. LocationIQ provides: 1. Address APIs: Reverse geocoding, forward geocoding, Autocomplete 2. Map APIs: Raster, Vector Map tiles, Dynamic and Static Maps 3. Routing APIs: Routing, Distance Matrix, Map-matching, Nearest and more ## LocationIQ Reviews ### 1. Geocoding Genius **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brian K. | Paraprofessional, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 13, 2023 **What do you like best about LocationIQ?** I love that LocationIQ creates a google map esq technology combined with geocoding to better simulate all of your location and point a to point b technology throughly **What do you dislike about LocationIQ?** Nothing the pricing that is competitive cannot be touched and no long term commitments or contracts and most importantly no hidden charges from the company that are annoying **What problems is LocationIQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Some ways Locationiq is benefiting me is that I can use it without a map and get custom rate limits,payment options and SLA on demand with worldwide coverage and unlimited calls ### 2. Best_Geocoding **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rahul P. | Team Lead, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 08, 2023 **What do you like best about LocationIQ?** Simple to use, API LOCATIONIQ delivers elusive reserve geocodinh data that I can't obtain from other sources.. JSON response is amazingly fast as well as accurate. **What do you dislike about LocationIQ?** I see nothing that would be detrimental to our goals. **What problems is LocationIQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Utilise our local site solution that may be quickly deployed to meet urgent location management demands. ### 3. Location IQ - Reliable, Afordable, Well documented API. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kamal S. | Sr. IT Recruiter, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2023 **What do you like best about LocationIQ?** LocationIQ provides a very reliable, afordable, and well-documented API. The service just works all the time. Easy to install and use. I definitely recommend this product over other options. **What do you dislike about LocationIQ?** it's blazing fast! You'll not be disappointed. A reliable and affordable alternative to Google Maps API. **What problems is LocationIQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is very easy to set-up and works very well. I am impressed at how Reliable LocationIQ has been for us at EnVsion. ### 4. Transform data with Geocoding capabilities and find nearby locations of interest **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 08, 2022 **What do you like best about LocationIQ?** I like how the geocoding and reverse geocoding capabilities make the platform robust. Using the LocationIQ's library helps writing scabale APIs which enable our organization to make sense of the location part in each of our business processes. **What do you dislike about LocationIQ?** We face some issues in Javascript and support for images from Maps is missing. **What problems is LocationIQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** LocationIQ benefits us to keep track of business activities and implement a couple of functionalities using APIs written using library provided by them. ### 5. Integration & Accuracy of software **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gajendra K. | Technical Team Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2021 **What do you like best about LocationIQ?** I liked the way it helped me easy to integrate in fast and returns with accurate results. **What do you dislike about LocationIQ?** Sometimes, geocoding results are inaccurate, that's when converting a coordinate to a place. There should be a workaround for this product and we can rely on APIs for fixed the issue. **What problems is LocationIQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Accurate reverse geocoding used to Integrate in fast API, used for finding the places and addresses for given coordinates. ### 6. Make Gio Coding Easy with LocationIQ **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Viswanath V. | Business Process Lead, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2021 **What do you like best about LocationIQ?** LocationIQ provides flexible enterprise-grade location based solutions. Can do Reverse coding. Have security like Authentication and also have Access token as multiple security parameter. **What do you dislike about LocationIQ?** Lots of users are facing issues in applications such as Javascript websites or mobile apps. For that user have to generate new access tokens on User Dashboard, if required we need to create a separate access token for each application, label them accordingly. There lots of time is been wasted. Provider could fix this issue **Recommendations to others considering LocationIQ:** Good geo tagging and reverse tagging features. Try it atleast once if possible **What problems is LocationIQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** We as a project, authorized to call our APIs or Maps with an access token. Streamline, the process of HTTP Resources and IP restrictions. Fixing multiple HTTP referrers, specify one pattern per line, upto a maximum of 10 per access token. ### 7. LocationIQ provides exceptional geocoding service **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Imroz Q. | Training Lead (Sr. Associate), Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2021 **What do you like best about LocationIQ?** I like the feature where you can get the cordinates of the street addresses to get the exact location on the map. LocationIQ helps in converting the cordinates to street addresses and vice versa. The maps are fully responsive and can be best viewed on any portable devices. **What do you dislike about LocationIQ?** Not able to export images from Maps and add labels. Labelling helps to identify or mark the locations on the maps, which is a key feature missing in LocationIQ. **Recommendations to others considering LocationIQ:** If your main objective is to convert street addresses to geographic coordinates and vice versa, LocationIQ solves this purpose. **What problems is LocationIQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am converting the geographic coordinates to street addresses with the reverse geocoding technique. This feature is helpful as I can get the exact street address based on the coordinates and saves a lot of time to reach the destination following the map. ### 8. Best Map and Location Tracking Tool For Businesses **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prayesh P. | Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 13, 2021 **What do you like best about LocationIQ?** This is one of the best Map and location tracking service provider for small and medium businesses. Customers can easily track their shipments in real time **What do you dislike about LocationIQ?** Bug fixes and loading issues when used in peak duration. Sometimes accuracy also lacks, need to improve accuracy of the specified object over map **Recommendations to others considering LocationIQ:** Yes this is recommended to businesses who want to provide realtime location of offered goods to their business partners and customers. It is sure return on investment for longer term **What problems is LocationIQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Customer get real time updates and exact location of their shipments. We are tracking vehicles carrying goods for our customers. Our business partners can keep track of their shipments in realtime making them assured about delivery of their shiments is going to happen in specified duration as expected by them ### 9. LocationIQ User Experience A blazing fast api **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anish J. | Technical Lead , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 22, 2021 **What do you like best about LocationIQ?** Some of the things which i like its very fast and it helps in routing. 1. Use of its geographical api. 2. Get from one point to other with routing, distance matrix. 3. Its convenient and used frequently. 4. The location services provided help to work from any location and use , its highly portable too. **What do you dislike about LocationIQ?** Nothing much but need more optimization and new services and api to extend this furthermore so that it can reduce the time of developers. **What problems is LocationIQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. It helps to create web application and use their api to provide a geolocation experience to the user on the go. 2. Its very portable as we can build mobile application and use this api in that platform too. ### 10. LocationIQ - Making GeoLocation API affordable **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Huzefa T. | System Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 07, 2021 **What do you like best about LocationIQ?** The best thing about LocationIQ is that it is easy to integrate with your application. The documentation provided is enough for understanding and setting up. Pricing is just good enough to switch from Google API. **What do you dislike about LocationIQ?** Few feature that are provided with google api are missing like shareable maps and google earth. **Recommendations to others considering LocationIQ:** Best cost / quality ratio **What problems is LocationIQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using LocationIQ for forward and reverse geocoding. The cost is less that makes it an option over google or Mapbox. Internet mapping is also one functionality we use LocationIQ. ### 11. "Alternate solution for google Maps" **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** FARHAAN S. | Management Trainee, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 02, 2021 **What do you like best about LocationIQ?** We can find street address from the Cordinates or we can do Reverse geocoding. Cost of the premium plans of google maps uite expensive whereas it is much lesser in LocationIq. Location tracking is the best. **What do you dislike about LocationIQ?** Needs to be more Accurate, its Accuracy might be around 80%. Needs faster internet Connection otherwise it may Lags. **What problems is LocationIQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Forward geocoding and Reverse Geocoding. Customers Can track their Order in Real time, which Vehicle is Carrying the Ordar to when it will get deliver. Pricing is much lesser that was the main reason why we shifted from google maps to LocationIq. ### 12. Amazing pricing and Support **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Binayak B. | Security Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2021 **What do you like best about LocationIQ?** The best thing is flexible contract provided by location iq which allows developers to scale and consume APIs without the fear of breaching boundaries. This is an immense help for growing businesses. Also the the sheer number of free requests that help in testing environments is great. **What do you dislike about LocationIQ?** It suffices current requirements without any issues. There have been certain downtimes but was resolved pretty quickly. **Recommendations to others considering LocationIQ:** Handy solution with attractive price rates. Geocoding is very intuitive. It's a pleasure to use. **What problems is LocationIQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps in developing scalable apps with location data. The attractive pricing and flexibility is the greatest benefit. ### 13. Amazing Geocoding Tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Manvendra S. | Data Engineering Senior Analyst, Computer Software, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 13, 2021 **What do you like best about LocationIQ?** It’s a great application for location tracking for exact location searches and quite good documentation and easy to integrate. **What do you dislike about LocationIQ?** There is no such dislike but there is always an scope of update the API can be more user friendly and results can be more accurate **Recommendations to others considering LocationIQ:** Will surely give a try as it does good job and is quite pocket friendly. **What problems is LocationIQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** It’s helps me finding exact locations and it’s documentation is very beneficial and it’s quite pocket friendly as compared to other apps. ### 14. Great documentation and easy to deploy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nicolò G. | Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2021 **What do you like best about LocationIQ?** Documentation and migration from google maps was great **What do you dislike about LocationIQ?** not much to dislike, we use the free tier but even pricing is right **What problems is LocationIQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** geo location, used to transform string into geo position ### 15. Location IQ is superb! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 25, 2021 **What do you like best about LocationIQ?** -Great for small businesses, budget friendly! - Shipments can be tracked smoothly. - Interface is highly user friendly. **What do you dislike about LocationIQ?** Nothing to dislike as such just few suggestions to make it more convenient are - Upgrades should come often. - Location can not be tracked sometimes due to connectivity issues. **What problems is LocationIQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using location IQ for forward and reverse geocoding. The cost is affordable compared to google. Internet mapping is also one functionality we use LocationIQ. ### 16. Review for LocationIQ **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Omkar V. | System Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 24, 2021 **What do you like best about LocationIQ?** ONE OF THE BEST LOCATION INTELLIGENCE ECONOMIC ADVISORY SERVICES AVAILABLE IN THE MARKET. **What do you dislike about LocationIQ?** Pricing structure for their retail customers. They have different prices for all customers. **What problems is LocationIQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using IQcensus solved my map integration in app problem. ### 17. Perfect geocoding API and free as well. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 18, 2021 **What do you like best about LocationIQ?** It is too simple to implement and very easy to use. I am really impressed with this because of it's reliability. Never faced problem with endpoints as it was never down. **What do you dislike about LocationIQ?** Nothing is there to dislike about this. I consider it is perfect and does the job. **Recommendations to others considering LocationIQ:** I would definitely recommend this product for geocoding to any size of organization. **What problems is LocationIQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** It was really amazing to use this product to reverse geocoding on on private installation. ### 18. Great geolocation tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 07, 2021 **What do you like best about LocationIQ?** It is easy to integrate and very well documented for support and help. Additionally, the dashboards are easily understandable for a low cost of implementation **What do you dislike about LocationIQ?** Results can often be inaccurate. The quality of result depends on the geographical location which can largely be due to lack of sufficient data **Recommendations to others considering LocationIQ:** It is a relatively cheaper option to consider other than Google. Do give it a try **What problems is LocationIQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using to build GIS and integrate it in our project ### 19. LocationIQ is a intelligent tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 25, 2021 **What do you like best about LocationIQ?** It's reliability, affordability and scalability. Wonderful - API (address,Map and routing ) Routing is really fast. **What do you dislike about LocationIQ?** Adding label isn't possible though not able to mark the location for future reference **What problems is LocationIQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Remember my way with the help of coordinates. To easy for staff the reach following the map. ### 20. Excellent geocoding service **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Stephen T. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2020 **What do you like best about LocationIQ?** I've been using LocationIQ for nearly one year in support of both mobile and web applications requiring forward and reverse geocoding services. The API was very straightforward to integrate with and has performed extremely well ever since. Response time and query result quality are excellent. We have been using the autocomplete API end point to provide superior user experience for our customers. We have been able to address search result concerns from multiple customers by switching traffic to LocationIQ. The terms of use are clearly set out and very reasonable. I expect to keep growing our request volume based on the experience so far. **What do you dislike about LocationIQ?** I would prefer a true usage based pricing scheme - the jumps between plan price levels are large, especially in comparison to other services that are part of our technology stack. We've seen a slight uptick in 5xx responses to API calls in recent weeks - nothing problematic, yet, but it would be nice to a return to the pretty much error free traffic we'd seen previously. **What problems is LocationIQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use LocationIQ for forward, reverse and autocomplete geocoding API queries via mobile and web. Our search result quality has improved significantly since switching to LocationIQ from a competing service. The ease of integration and clarity of documentation has been a real benefit compared with other services we have evaluated. Performance is also great out of the box, without the need to experiment with request formats and parameters to tune things appropriately. ### 21. Very professionally created tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2020 **What do you like best about LocationIQ?** This tool is very helpful creating map for your team. **What do you dislike about LocationIQ?** It can be little bit more user friendly design. **What problems is LocationIQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps my team to find most efficiently driving route. ### 22. LocationIQ for reverse geocoding **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Norman E. A. | Director - Lead Engineer - Project Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2020 **What do you like best about LocationIQ?** Api is easy to integrate and give a lot of information, I cannot give a 10 just because data from OSM is not as updated as Google places and users usually correlate the data to google maps as they want to find a business **What do you dislike about LocationIQ?** Some places are not well referenced, and sometimes addresses are not searchable as it is possible in other platforms like Google maps. Directions api does not works. **Recommendations to others considering LocationIQ:** Basic geocoding, reverse geocoding, search places and easiness of implementation. **What problems is LocationIQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Find places by name, easy to implement, uses OSM data that is easier to mantain and change. ### 23. Excellent Cheap Accurate **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** simon p. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 28, 2020 **What do you like best about LocationIQ?** substantial free allowence, easy to use, accurate **What do you dislike about LocationIQ?** no downsides that I have encountered in almost 2,000,000 reverse geocoding requests so far **Recommendations to others considering LocationIQ:** try it! **What problems is LocationIQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** saves a lot of money compared to google! ### 24. Fast and simple implemantation **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Uwe D. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2020 **What do you like best about LocationIQ?** Fast and simple implemantation in my HCL Domino application **What do you dislike about LocationIQ?** few results in Forchheim, Germany are not correct **What problems is LocationIQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** "convert" addresses in geo coordinates ### 25. Great service **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 15, 2020 **What do you like best about LocationIQ?** This API is free for my purposes and I cannot ask for more. It works well and does what it says on the tin **What do you dislike about LocationIQ?** There is nothing to dislike. If I had to choose anything, I would choose not to pay for their enhanced services. :-) **Recommendations to others considering LocationIQ:** Give the free access a trial.. See how you go. You have nothing to lose **What problems is LocationIQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use this for my GPS Tracking software and this API gives me exact address locations ## LocationIQ Discussions - [How do I get the LocationIQ token?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-do-i-get-the-locationiq-token) - [Is reverse geocoding free?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-reverse-geocoding-free) - [Is Google geocoding free?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-google-geocoding-free) - [How good is LocationIQ?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-good-is-locationiq) - [I'd like the ability to insert custom markers (pointers) in the static maps API because it would help with branding.](https://www.g2.com/discussions/i-d-like-the-ability-to-insert-custom-markers-pointers-in-the-static-maps-api-because-it-would-help-with-branding) - 1 upvote - [View LocationIQ pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/locationiq/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-14+09%3A10%3A42+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=157283ac-cedc-4107-883e-f406afc2e7d3&secure%5Btoken%5D=1d8df5c49acff33f02cfcecc0fa57ceb068b3fe86b25297ad8d129db2e7b0cb3&format=llm_user) ## LocationIQ Features **Data Management** - Data Capture - Data Storage - Data Manipulation - Data Visualization **Map Creation** - Geocoding - Buffer Zone Query - Overlaying - Publishing **Analysis** - Spatial Analysis - Reporting - Real-Time Streaming ## Top LocationIQ Alternatives - [Esri ArcGIS](https://www.g2.com/products/esri-arcgis/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (515 reviews) - [Mapbox](https://www.g2.com/products/mapbox/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (41 reviews) - [AutoCAD](https://www.g2.com/products/autocad/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (1,832 reviews)