>but if you have a database of thousands of addresses you can't meaningfully annotate data in a way that's valuable in the medium-to-long-term. Some APIs let y

>but if you have a database of thousands of addresses you can't meaningfully annotate data in a way that's valuable in the medium-to-long-term. Some APIs let you retrieve and store a geocode ID (sometimes they call it a "magic ID"), which you can then store information against. But yes, your point stands.