Use to get a street address and location info from longitude and latitude coordinates.
The Get Reverse Geocoding API is an HTTP GET request used to translate a coordinate (example: 37.786505, -122.3862) into a human understandable street address. Useful in tracking applications where you receive a GPS feed from the device or asset and wish to know the address associated with the coordinates. This endpoint will return address information for a given coordinate.
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Query parameters
Version number of Azure Maps API.
The coordinates of the location that you want to reverse geocode. Example: &coordinates=lon,lat
Specify entity types that you want in the response. Only the types you specify will be returned. If the point cannot be mapped to the entity types you specify, no location information is returned in the response. Default value is all possible entities. A comma separated list of entity types selected from the following options.
- Address
- Neighborhood
- PopulatedPlace
- Postcode1
- AdminDivision1
- AdminDivision2
- CountryRegion
These entity types are ordered from the most specific entity to the least specific entity. When entities of more than one entity type are found, only the most specific entity is returned. For example, if you specify Address and AdminDistrict1 as entity types and entities were found for both types, only the Address entity information is returned in the response.
A string that represents an ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2 region/country code. This will alter Geopolitical disputed borders and labels to align with the specified user region. By default, the View parameter is set to “Auto” even if you haven’t defined it in the request.
Please refer to Supported Views for details and to see the available Views.
Headers
Language in which search results should be returned.
Please refer to Supported Languages for details.
Parameters
Response
OK