I work in the GIS field for a local government office. We use a piece of software to assess property values, and I was hoping to try to figure out a way to automate the ability to zoom straight to whatever piece of property that our employees are looking at. The only issue with this is our software doesn't house any geographic data, so I couldn't figure out a way to take a property using our identifier number and convert that to latitute and longitude, which I believed was a requirement to utilize the API that our oblique imagery vendor provides.

After some digging and searching the deepest trenches of the web I found someone who was using a method that I didn't know existed. Instead of needing latitude and longitude this person was searching by address! After some tinkering and figuring out exactly what syntax the API needed I was off to the races.

This was a personal victory because I was telling the higher-ups it wasn't a possibility for over a year.

Now I look like a hero!