Geocode

[Alena Sokolyanskaya]

We have data on geocodes (digits) from division level to village level. What package/ command in state can we use to convert it to coordinates? since the packages that I checked: geocode, opencagegeo, geocode here - convert from address to coordinates and reverse. Since some of the villages are small and we know only the name (that also can't be found via google) we have data of this geocodes. If there is any possibility to convert this codes to coordinates?

Here is the file with data of geocodes

[wbuchanan]

You should be able to use jsonio to use the Google Geocoding API or any other web-based API.

[William Lisowski]

Welcome to Statalist, Alena.

Let me add a possible insight, qualified by the admission that I don't routinely do geocoding. You wrote

the packages that I checked ... convert from address to coordinates

It seems to me that should be what you need. Many such packages do not require a full street address. For example, from the help file for the user-written opencageo command available at SSC, we read

Not all options for forward geocoding have to be specified at the same time; any meaningful combination is possible. To obtain geocodes of cities you may use city(), state() and country().

I think this is what you are looking for, if the database behind the command has suitable data for Barisal. Other packages seem to have similar capability, in that the various components of the address are options, not all are required.