Configuring Geocoding

Geocoding is the process of converting a location name (like nyc or Argentina) into GPS coordinates and bounding box(es).

Perkeep’s location search will use Google’s Geocoding API if a key is provided, otherwise it falls back to using OpenStreetMap’s API.

To use Google’s Geocoding API, you need to manually get your own API key from Google and place it in your Perkeep configuration directory (run pk env configdir to find your configuration directory) in a file named google-geocode.key.

To get the Google API key, see https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/get-api-key