latitude and longitude

I thank you to both.

Are these webservices applicable to every country's locations?

Are these webservices applicable to every country's locations?

I doubt every address will be catered for but the majority of urban and suburban ones should.

For the Google one - try typing an address into http://maps.google.com search box and see if / how it resolves it. If Google maps resolves it then the Google geocoder service should.

>I doubt every address will be catered for

Good point julianH.  Sometimes you will get back a quality score that lets you know how the point was matched up.  At least in the use you might get something like; "exact match", "zip4",  "zip", "state".   Where exact match is the rooftop level, zip4 means the point is within the same street on the same block, zip or state would be the centroid of the zip/state.   A centroid is the population weighted center. In other words, if 80% of the population was in the southwest corder of the polygon, the centroid would be very close to to the south west corner of the polygon.

The take away is not every point is going to be at the rooftop level.  I have noticed some  api's do not return this info.  It would be interesting to know if they just don't return a point that is not at the rooftop level or return a point that is a representation of the address but not actually at the address.

one connected question is:

Physical: 7 Tower Road
Airport Industria
CPT Intl Airport
Postal: PO Box 675
Eppingdust 7475

I was trying its lat/long but could not get it what can be the reason?

Thank you.