# Blog Post: Geocoding in Cesium using Pelias

**URL:** <https://community.cesium.com/t/blog-post-geocoding-in-cesium-using-pelias/7318>\
**Category:** CesiumJS\
**Created:** [August 21, 2018, 5:06am UTC](https://community.cesium.com/t/blog-post-geocoding-in-cesium-using-pelias/7318 "2018-08-21T05:06:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![sarah](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/cesium/user_avatar/community.cesium.com/sarah/32/1947_2.png) [@sarah](https://community.cesium.com/u/sarah)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2018, 5:06am UTC](https://community.cesium.com/t/blog-post-geocoding-in-cesium-using-pelias/7318/1 "2018-08-21T05:06:55Z")

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We have a guest post on our blog by Julian Simioni of Pelias, the open-source geocoded used by Cesium ion.

He explains what a geocoder is, how it “guesses” what users are thinking, the power of reverse geocoding, and some of the quirks geocoders encounter.

[https://cesium.com/blog/2018/08/14/geocoding-with-pelias/](https://cesium.com/blog/2018/08/14/geocoding-with-pelias/)