A couple of days ago while browsing Reddit, I came across someone asking if anyone had used the Google Geocoding API and how they went about doing it. Having recently done it, I offered by assistance, but also felt compelled to write up a blog post. Because of course like most things Spark or API related, there isn’t much out there in terms of actual examples. So here’s me effort in trying to share how we went about adding geocoding to our dataframes for addresses or lat/longs.