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# What is geocoding?

Many people use the terms geocoding, geotagging and gereferencing interchangeably. Within HoudahGeo we refer to the process as geocoding.
If you were to distinguish the 3 terms, you might consider the following definitions:

- georeferencing: act of assigning a geographical location to a photo (steps 1 & 2 in the HoudahGeo workflow)

- geocoding: encoding geographical data within an image file (EXIF/XMP export)

- geotagging: attaching geographical data as tags to a file (done as part of Flickr! upload)

HoudahGeo has got all bases covered. It is your one-stop georeferencing, geocoding and geotagging solution for the Mac. Moreover it exports to Google Earth. This process falls out of scope for the above three terms.