Geocode Earth Search API

openapi: 3.0.1
info:
  title: Geocode Earth API
  description: >-
    Hosted geocoding and address autocomplete API built on the open-source
    Pelias geocoder. Provides forward (search), autocomplete, reverse, and
    structured geocoding plus place lookup over open data sources
    (OpenStreetMap, OpenAddresses, Who's on First, and Geonames). All
    responses are GeoJSON FeatureCollections. Authentication is via an
    api_key query string parameter.
  termsOfService: https://geocode.earth/terms/
  contact:
    name: Geocode Earth Support
    url: https://geocode.earth/
    email: hello@geocode.earth
  version: '1.0'
servers:
  - url: https://api.geocode.earth/v1
    description: Geocode Earth v1 production API
security:
  - ApiKeyAuth: []
paths:
  /search:
    get:
      operationId: search
      tags:
        - Forward
      summary: Forward geocoding (search)
      description: >-
        Turn a free-text place or address string into structured GeoJSON
        results with coordinates, ranked by relevance.
      parameters:
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ApiKey'
        - name: text
          in: query
          required: true
          description: The place or address to search for.
          schema:
            type: string
          example: 476 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10018
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Size'
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Layers'
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Sources'
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/BoundaryCountry'
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/BoundaryRectMinLon'
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/BoundaryRectMinLat'
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/BoundaryRectMaxLon'
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/BoundaryRectMaxLat'
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/BoundaryCircleLat'
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/BoundaryCircleLon'
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/BoundaryCircleRadius'
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/FocusPointLat'
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/FocusPointLon'
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Lang'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A GeoJSON FeatureCollection of geocoding results.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/GeocodingResponse'
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/TooManyRequests'
  /autocomplete:
    get:
      operationId: autocomplete
      tags:
        - Forward
      summary: Autocomplete (type-ahead) geocoding
      description: >-
        Type-ahead geocoding optimized for partial, real-time user input.
        Returns ranked suggestions as the user types.
      parameters:
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ApiKey'
        - name: text
          in: query
          required: true
          description: The partial search input from the user.
          schema:
            type: string
          example: lond
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Layers'
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Sources'
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/BoundaryCountry'
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/BoundaryRectMinLon'
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/BoundaryRectMinLat'
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/BoundaryRectMaxLon'
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/BoundaryRectMaxLat'
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/FocusPointLat'
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/FocusPointLon'
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Lang'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A GeoJSON FeatureCollection of autocomplete suggestions.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/GeocodingResponse'
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/TooManyRequests'
  /reverse:
    get:
      operationId: reverse
      tags:
        - Reverse
      summary: Reverse geocoding
      description: >-
        Convert a latitude/longitude point into the nearest address, venue,
        or (with the layers parameter) the administrative area that contains
        it.
      parameters:
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ApiKey'
        - name: point.lat
          in: query
          required: true
          description: Latitude of the point to reverse geocode.
          schema:
            type: number
            format: double
          example: -22.95166
        - name: point.lon
          in: query
          required: true
          description: Longitude of the point to reverse geocode.
          schema:
            type: number
            format: double
          example: -43.21083
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Size'
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Layers'
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Sources'
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/BoundaryCountry'
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/BoundaryCircleRadius'
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Lang'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A GeoJSON FeatureCollection of nearby records.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/GeocodingResponse'
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/TooManyRequests'
  /search/structured:
    get:
      operationId: searchStructured
      tags:
        - Forward
      summary: Structured forward geocoding
      description: >-
        Forward geocoding from separate address components instead of a single
        free-text string. At least one component parameter is required.
      parameters:
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ApiKey'
        - name: address
          in: query
          description: Street address including house number, e.g. "10 Downing St".
          schema:
            type: string
          example: 10 Downing St
        - name: neighbourhood
          in: query
          description: Neighbourhood within a locality.
          schema:
            type: string
        - name: borough
          in: query
          description: Borough within a locality (e.g. a New York City borough).
          schema:
            type: string
        - name: locality
          in: query
          description: City or town.
          schema:
            type: string
          example: London
        - name: county
          in: query
          description: County or administrative subdivision below region.
          schema:
            type: string
        - name: region
          in: query
          description: State, province, or region.
          schema:
            type: string
        - name: postalcode
          in: query
          description: Postal or ZIP code.
          schema:
            type: string
          example: SW1A 2AA
        - name: country
          in: query
          description: Country name or ISO 3166-1 alpha-2/alpha-3 code.
          schema:
            type: string
          example: GB
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Size'
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Layers'
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Sources'
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Lang'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A GeoJSON FeatureCollection of geocoding results.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/GeocodingResponse'
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/TooManyRequests'
  /place:
    get:
      operationId: place
      tags:
        - Place
      summary: Place lookup by gid
      description: >-
        Look up one or more records directly by their Geocode Earth global
        identifier (gid). Multiple ids may be supplied as a comma-separated
        list.
      parameters:
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ApiKey'
        - name: ids
          in: query
          required: true
          description: >-
            One or more global identifiers (gid) to retrieve, comma-separated.
          schema:
            type: string
          example: whosonfirst:locality:101750367
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Lang'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A GeoJSON FeatureCollection containing the requested records.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/GeocodingResponse'
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/TooManyRequests'
components:
  securitySchemes:
    ApiKeyAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: query
      name: api_key
      description: Geocode Earth API key passed as the api_key query string parameter.
  parameters:
    ApiKey:
      name: api_key
      in: query
      required: true
      description: Your Geocode Earth API key.
      schema:
        type: string
    Size:
      name: size
      in: query
      description: Maximum number of results to return (default 10).
      schema:
        type: integer
        default: 10
        minimum: 1
        maximum: 40
    Layers:
      name: layers
      in: query
      description: >-
        Comma-separated list of layers to search, e.g. venue, address,
        street, locality, region, country, or the coarse alias.
      schema:
        type: string
      example: venue,address
    Sources:
      name: sources
      in: query
      description: >-
        Comma-separated list of data sources to query, e.g. osm
        (OpenStreetMap), oa (OpenAddresses), wof (Who's on First), gn
        (Geonames).
      schema:
        type: string
      example: osm,oa
    BoundaryCountry:
      name: boundary.country
      in: query
      description: Restrict results to one or more ISO 3166-1 country codes.
      schema:
        type: string
      example: US
    BoundaryRectMinLon:
      name: boundary.rect.min_lon
      in: query
      description: Minimum longitude of a bounding rectangle filter.
      schema:
        type: number
        format: double
    BoundaryRectMinLat:
      name: boundary.rect.min_lat
      in: query
      description: Minimum latitude of a bounding rectangle filter.
      schema:
        type: number
        format: double
    BoundaryRectMaxLon:
      name: boundary.rect.max_lon
      in: query
      description: Maximum longitude of a bounding rectangle filter.
      schema:
        type: number
        format: double
    BoundaryRectMaxLat:
      name: boundary.rect.max_lat
      in: query
      description: Maximum latitude of a bounding rectangle filter.
      schema:
        type: number
        format: double
    BoundaryCircleLat:
      name: boundary.circle.lat
      in: query
      description: Latitude of the center of a bounding circle filter.
      schema:
        type: number
        format: double
    BoundaryCircleLon:
      name: boundary.circle.lon
      in: query
      description: Longitude of the center of a bounding circle filter.
      schema:
        type: number
        format: double
    BoundaryCircleRadius:
      name: boundary.circle.radius
      in: query
      description: Radius of the bounding circle filter, in kilometers.
      schema:
        type: number
        format: double
    FocusPointLat:
      name: focus.point.lat
      in: query
      description: Latitude used to prioritize results near a given location.
      schema:
        type: number
        format: double
    FocusPointLon:
      name: focus.point.lon
      in: query
      description: Longitude used to prioritize results near a given location.
      schema:
        type: number
        format: double
    Lang:
      name: lang
      in: query
      description: >-
        Preferred response language as an ISO 639-1 or 639-3 code, used to
        localize result labels where translations are available.
      schema:
        type: string
      example: en
  responses:
    BadRequest:
      description: The request was malformed or missing a required parameter.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/GeocodingResponse'
    Unauthorized:
      description: The API key was missing or invalid.
    TooManyRequests:
      description: The account rate limit or quota was exceeded.
  schemas:
    GeocodingResponse:
      type: object
      description: A GeoJSON FeatureCollection returned by the Geocode Earth API.
      properties:
        geocoding:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/GeocodingBlock'
        type:
          type: string
          example: FeatureCollection
        features:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Feature'
        bbox:
          type: array
          description: Bounding box of all results as [min_lon, min_lat, max_lon, max_lat].
          items:
            type: number
            format: double
    GeocodingBlock:
      type: object
      description: Metadata about the geocoding request and engine.
      properties:
        version:
          type: string
          example: '0.2'
        attribution:
          type: string
          example: https://geocode.earth/guidelines
        query:
          type: object
          additionalProperties: true
          description: Echo of the parsed query parameters used for the request.
        engine:
          type: object
          properties:
            name:
              type: string
              example: Pelias
            author:
              type: string
              example: Geocode Earth
            version:
              type: string
              example: '1.0'
        timestamp:
          type: integer
          format: int64
          description: Unix epoch timestamp (milliseconds) when the response was generated.
    Feature:
      type: object
      description: A single GeoJSON Feature representing a geocoded record.
      properties:
        type:
          type: string
          example: Feature
        geometry:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Geometry'
        properties:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/FeatureProperties'
        bbox:
          type: array
          items:
            type: number
            format: double
    Geometry:
      type: object
      properties:
        type:
          type: string
          example: Point
        coordinates:
          type: array
          description: Coordinates as [longitude, latitude].
          items:
            type: number
            format: double
          example:
            - -73.981929
            - 40.752663
    FeatureProperties:
      type: object
      description: Descriptive properties for a geocoded record.
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
          example: '101750367'
        gid:
          type: string
          description: Global identifier usable with the place endpoint.
          example: whosonfirst:locality:101750367
        layer:
          type: string
          example: venue
        source:
          type: string
          example: osm
        source_id:
          type: string
        country_code:
          type: string
          example: US
        name:
          type: string
          example: Empire State Building
        confidence:
          type: number
          format: float
          example: 0.9
        match_type:
          type: string
          example: exact
        accuracy:
          type: string
          example: point
        country:
          type: string
          example: United States
        country_gid:
          type: string
        region:
          type: string
          example: New York
        region_gid:
          type: string
        locality:
          type: string
          example: New York
        locality_gid:
          type: string
        postalcode:
          type: string
          example: '10018'
        street:
          type: string
          example: 5th Avenue
        housenumber:
          type: string
          example: '476'
        label:
          type: string
          example: Empire State Building, New York, NY, USA