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How does an address API get it's info? Presumably addresses don't change often right? When they do, how does a service like this update it's records?

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Actually, I found this very same company has a previous blog post addressing this question:

https://www.geocod.io/code-and-coordinates/2025-01-13-how-ge...

This is cool! They mention they aggregate from over 3000 sources. What are the usual sources for something like this? Is this public government data from cities?

yep! Local governments create some of the source data we use for tax purposes.

We have more about our data sources here: https://www.geocod.io/data-sources/

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