Nominatim · Example Payload

Nominatim Place Example

GeocodingOpenStreetMapMapsLocation ServicesOpen-SourcePublic APIs

Nominatim Place Example is an example object payload from Nominatim, with 17 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

@context@typeplace_idlicenceosm_typeosm_idlatloncategorytypeplace_rankimportanceaddresstypenamedisplay_nameboundingboxaddress

Example Payload

{
  "@context": "../json-ld/nominatim-context.jsonld",
  "@type": "Place",
  "place_id": 78901234,
  "licence": "Data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0. http://osm.org/copyright",
  "osm_type": "way",
  "osm_id": 5013364,
  "lat": "48.8582599",
  "lon": "2.2945006",
  "category": "tourism",
  "type": "attraction",
  "place_rank": 30,
  "importance": 0.79658,
  "addresstype": "tourism",
  "name": "Tour Eiffel",
  "display_name": "Tour Eiffel, 5, Avenue Anatole France, Paris, Île-de-France, 75007, France",
  "boundingbox": ["48.8574753", "48.8590453", "2.2933813", "2.2956195"],
  "address": {
    "@type": "Address",
    "house_number": "5",
    "road": "Avenue Anatole France",
    "city": "Paris",
    "state": "Île-de-France",
    "postcode": "75007",
    "country": "France",
    "country_code": "fr"
  }
}

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