I love a good geocoder. That's a piece of software that turns a human-readable location, like "60 5th Ave, NYC," into latitude and longitude coordinates that are easy to plot on a map or feed into ...

Not all geocoding news is for the paranoid, some examples of geocoding software are just plain great -- like Jeffrey Friedl's new plugin to add geodata in Adobe's Lightroom photo management software.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. When we talk about “geocoding” we most commonly refer to textual ...