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Nominatim Place Structure

Field-level structure of a Nominatim Place result.

Type: Properties: 0
GeocodingOpenStreetMapMapsLocation ServicesOpen-SourcePublic APIs

Nominatim Place Structure is a JSON Structure definition published by Nominatim. It conforms to the https://json-structure.org/draft/v1 meta-schema.

Meta-schema: https://json-structure.org/draft/v1

JSON Structure

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{
  "$schema": "https://json-structure.org/draft/v1",
  "$id": "https://nominatim.org/structures/place.json",
  "title": "Place",
  "description": "Field-level structure of a Nominatim Place result.",
  "fields": [
    { "name": "place_id", "type": "integer", "required": true, "description": "Internal database identifier." },
    { "name": "licence", "type": "string", "required": false, "description": "Attribution and licence text." },
    { "name": "osm_type", "type": "string", "required": true, "enum": ["node", "way", "relation"] },
    { "name": "osm_id", "type": "integer", "required": true },
    { "name": "boundingbox", "type": "array<string>", "required": false, "cardinality": "4" },
    { "name": "lat", "type": "string", "required": true },
    { "name": "lon", "type": "string", "required": true },
    { "name": "display_name", "type": "string", "required": true, "description": "Full comma-separated address." },
    { "name": "class", "type": "string", "required": false, "description": "Main OSM tag key (json format)." },
    { "name": "category", "type": "string", "required": false, "description": "Main OSM tag key (jsonv2 format)." },
    { "name": "type", "type": "string", "required": false, "description": "Main OSM tag value." },
    { "name": "place_rank", "type": "integer", "required": false },
    { "name": "importance", "type": "number", "required": false },
    { "name": "addresstype", "type": "string", "required": false },
    { "name": "name", "type": "string", "required": false },
    { "name": "icon", "type": "string", "required": false, "format": "uri" },
    { "name": "address", "type": "object", "ref": "nominatim-address-structure.json" },
    { "name": "extratags", "type": "map<string,string>", "required": false },
    { "name": "namedetails", "type": "map<string,string>", "required": false },
    { "name": "geojson", "type": "object", "required": false }
  ]
}

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