Pelias · Example Payload

Reverse

Example: reverse geocode the Eiffel Tower coordinates

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Reverse 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.

Top-level fields

descriptionrequestresponse

Example Payload

{
  "description": "Example: reverse geocode the Eiffel Tower coordinates",
  "request": {
    "method": "GET",
    "url": "https://api.geocode.earth/v1/reverse?point.lat=48.858268&point.lon=2.294471"
  },
  "response": {
    "geocoding": {
      "version": "1.0",
      "attribution": "https://geocode.earth/guidelines",
      "query": {
        "point.lat": 48.858268,
        "point.lon": 2.294471,
        "size": 10,
        "private": false,
        "lang": {
          "name": "English",
          "iso6391": "en",
          "iso6393": "eng",
          "defaulted": true
        }
      },
      "engine": {
        "name": "Pelias",
        "author": "Mapzen",
        "version": "1.0"
      },
      "timestamp": 1525718151924
    },
    "type": "FeatureCollection",
    "features": [
      {
        "type": "Feature",
        "geometry": {
          "type": "Point",
          "coordinates": [2.294471, 48.858268]
        },
        "properties": {
          "id": "way/5013364",
          "gid": "openstreetmap:venue:way/5013364",
          "layer": "venue",
          "source": "openstreetmap",
          "source_id": "way/5013364",
          "name": "Tour Eiffel",
          "confidence": 0.9,
          "distance": 0.0,
          "country": "France",
          "country_a": "FRA",
          "region": "Île-de-France",
          "locality": "Paris",
          "neighbourhood": "Gros-Caillou",
          "label": "Tour Eiffel, Paris, France"
        }
      }
    ],
    "bbox": [2.2882, 48.8547, 2.3001, 48.8614]
  }
}

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