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Autocomplete

Example: autocomplete 'Lon' focused near San Francisco — demonstrates type-ahead

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Autocomplete is an example object payload from Pelias, with 3 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

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{
  "description": "Example: autocomplete 'Lon' focused near San Francisco — demonstrates type-ahead",
  "request": {
    "method": "GET",
    "url": "https://api.geocode.earth/v1/autocomplete?text=Lon&focus.point.lat=51.5&focus.point.lon=-0.12"
  },
  "response": {
    "geocoding": {
      "version": "1.0",
      "attribution": "https://geocode.earth/guidelines",
      "query": {
        "text": "Lon",
        "size": 10,
        "private": false,
        "focus.point.lat": 51.5,
        "focus.point.lon": -0.12
      },
      "engine": {
        "name": "Pelias",
        "author": "Mapzen",
        "version": "1.0"
      },
      "timestamp": 1525718151924
    },
    "type": "FeatureCollection",
    "features": [
      {
        "type": "Feature",
        "geometry": {
          "type": "Point",
          "coordinates": [-0.125422, 51.501581]
        },
        "properties": {
          "id": "101750367",
          "gid": "whosonfirst:locality:101750367",
          "layer": "locality",
          "source": "whosonfirst",
          "source_id": "101750367",
          "name": "London",
          "confidence": 1.0,
          "country": "United Kingdom",
          "country_a": "GBR",
          "macroregion": "England",
          "locality": "London",
          "locality_gid": "whosonfirst:locality:101750367",
          "label": "London, England, United Kingdom"
        }
      }
    ],
    "bbox": [-0.4984345, 51.297207, 0.27894, 51.6843015]
  }
}

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