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Search

Example: forward geocode 'YMCA' with focus on San Francisco

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Search 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

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{
  "description": "Example: forward geocode 'YMCA' with focus on San Francisco",
  "request": {
    "method": "GET",
    "url": "https://api.geocode.earth/v1/search?text=YMCA&focus.point.lat=37.7749&focus.point.lon=-122.4194&size=3"
  },
  "response": {
    "geocoding": {
      "version": "1.0",
      "attribution": "https://geocode.earth/guidelines",
      "query": {
        "text": "YMCA",
        "size": 3,
        "private": false,
        "focus.point.lat": 37.7749,
        "focus.point.lon": -122.4194,
        "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": [-122.413, 37.784]
        },
        "properties": {
          "id": "node/1234567",
          "gid": "openstreetmap:venue:node/1234567",
          "layer": "venue",
          "source": "openstreetmap",
          "source_id": "node/1234567",
          "name": "YMCA",
          "confidence": 0.9,
          "country": "United States",
          "country_a": "USA",
          "region": "California",
          "region_a": "CA",
          "locality": "San Francisco",
          "label": "YMCA, San Francisco County, CA"
        }
      }
    ],
    "bbox": [-122.413, 37.784, -122.413, 37.784]
  }
}

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