Find places and complete addresses

Two related but separate actions turn a name into coordinates, or coordinates into a name.

Find a place (geocoding)

Position → Find Place… searches for a place name or address and inserts a new position at the result.

Complete a postal address (reverse geocoding)

Position → Complete… → Postal Address does the opposite: for the selected positions, it looks up the coordinates and fills the description with a postal address.

Where the data comes from

Both actions try the same sources in order, and use the first one that answers:

1. Mapsforge — the offline map and its point-of-interest data, if the area is downloaded.
2. Nominatim and Photon — OpenStreetMap-based services, no key required.
3. GeoNames — an online lookup.
4. Google Maps — used only as a last resort, or if you select it explicitly in the configuration options, and only when a Google API key is configured. See Google API keys.