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Redact GPS coordinates from text, JSON, and CSV

Coordinates are the most precise location data there is: six decimal places locates a doorway. They are also bare numbers that no model can identify without a pattern.

How Redactly detects GPS coordinates

• Matched by regex for a decimal latitude and longitude pair separated by a comma.
• Signs are optional, so southern and western coordinates match too.
• Runs independently of the model, so coordinates in an otherwise empty field are still found.

Why redact GPS coordinates?

Precise coordinates can locate a person's home or workplace to within metres.

Example request

curl -X POST https://api.bitbanger.in/v1/redact \
  -H "X-API-Key: rdct_your_key_here" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"text": "Drop point 51.507351, -0.127758 confirmed by driver.", "style": "replace"}'

Every hit in the response carries entity, text, start, and end. The offsets index into the text you sent, so you can apply the redactions to your own copy of the document. The full response schema is in the API reference.

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