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Nominatim Reverse Example

GeocodingOpenStreetMapMapsLocation ServicesOpen-SourcePublic APIs

Nominatim Reverse Example is an example object payload from Nominatim, with 2 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

requestresponse

Example Payload

{
  "request": {
    "method": "GET",
    "url": "https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/reverse?lat=48.8584&lon=2.2945&format=jsonv2&addressdetails=1&zoom=18",
    "headers": {
      "User-Agent": "my-geocoding-app/1.0 (contact@example.com)",
      "Accept": "application/json"
    }
  },
  "response": {
    "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",
    "place_rank": 30,
    "category": "tourism",
    "type": "attraction",
    "importance": 0.79658,
    "addresstype": "tourism",
    "name": "Tour Eiffel",
    "display_name": "Tour Eiffel, 5, Avenue Anatole France, Quartier du Gros-Caillou, 7e Arrondissement, Paris, Île-de-France, France métropolitaine, 75007, France",
    "address": {
      "tourism": "Tour Eiffel",
      "house_number": "5",
      "road": "Avenue Anatole France",
      "neighbourhood": "Quartier du Gros-Caillou",
      "suburb": "7e Arrondissement",
      "city": "Paris",
      "state": "Île-de-France",
      "postcode": "75007",
      "country": "France",
      "country_code": "fr"
    },
    "boundingbox": ["48.8574753", "48.8590453", "2.2933813", "2.2956195"]
  }
}

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