An approach is provided for providing crowd-sourced location geocoding. A geocoding platform determines one or more location strings associated with at least one event, wherein the at least one event is associated with one or more users. The geocoding platform further causes, at least in part, a geocoding of the one or more location strings to determine location information associated with the at least one event based, at least in part, on one or more inputs, contextual information, a combination thereof associated with the one or more users.