Xamarin.Essentials provides developers with cross-platform APIs for their mobile applications. On this week's Xamarin.Essential API of the week we take a look at Geocoding, which enables you to geocode a placemark(address) to a positional coordinate or reverse geocode coordinates to a placemark!

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*   [Xamarin.Essentials Documentation](https://aka.ms/motz-essentials)
*   [Xamarin.Essentials Getting Started Documentation](https://aka.ms/motz-essentials-getstarted)
*   [Geocoding Documentation](https://aka.ms/motz-essentials-geocoding)
*   [Source Code](https://aka.ms/motz-essentials-app)
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