# 15 - Venues and Maps: Geocoding and Venue Management

Play The Event venue module: venues with categories and geocoding, MapLibre GL interactive maps, personal ratings, favorites and polls for venue selection.

## What you'll learn

- Luogo is a personal catalog per organizer, not a shared venue database
- TipologiaLuogo provides multilingual categorization with icons and colors
- GPS coordinates are stored as BigDecimal for high precision
- The venue-relationship link enriches context ("Marco's House")
- EventoLuogo handles the many-to-many relationship with specific usage types

*This article is part of the **Play the Event** series on federicocalo.dev.*

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## Read the full article

The complete article (11 min read) with code examples, diagrams, and practical exercises is available here:

**➡️ [15 - Venues and Maps: Geocoding and Venue Management](https://federicocalo.dev/en/blog/pte-venues-maps-geocoding)**

`https://federicocalo.dev/en/blog/pte-venues-maps-geocoding`

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*By [Federico Calò](https://federicocalo.dev) — Software Developer & Technical Writer*