PlaceKit is a worldwide geocoding API providing fast and accurate address autocomplete, store locator, and two-way geocoding for your app. It is the successor of Algolia Places, founded by two former employees, crafted by developers for developers.
My company currently relies on an autocomplete plugin powered by Google Maps API. Pretty often, part of the address (typically "bis"/"ter" address complement in France) are "swallowed" by the autocomplete.
Not a great UX and as people often don't notice it adds unnecessary friction for last mile deliveries.
I tested a bunch of such cases and had 100% accurate autocomplete with PlaceKit! Can't wait to switch!
It managed to find my location in a very remote area, whereas Google cannot so far. The data is kept up to date, which helps a lot with reducing return rates.
Great Product. We faced address-finding challenges back in the day in one of our projects. The placement is on point. I have a couple of questions, though, for the product:
1. Does Placekit store data for all the call request that happens on the search?
2. Considering it's worldwide, do you capture GEO-IP or Any other form of IP? If yes, will that be a data privacy complaint if countries with strong GDPR use it
Overall amazing product team 🙌🏻 5/5
Hi @ritik_singh_panwar, thanks a lot for your review!
To answer your questions: requests data and IP (without geolocation) are logged in Google Cloud and Algolia with limited retention but we do not store them anywhere else nor process them afterwards. IP is used only at request time to approximate location and serve more relevant results. We are GDPR compliant when providing our services all around the world.
We've updated our Privacy Policy to make all of this clear:
https://placekit.io/terms/privacy
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