Search for duplicate places

Search for similar places that might be duplicates of a given place.

Currently only the geographical location and title and are considered to find similar, already existing entries in the database.

Returns a list of possible duplicates for the given place.

post/search/duplicates

Request body

titlestring required

descriptionstring required

latnumber double required

Geographic latitude (in degrees)

lngnumber double required

Geographic longitude (in degrees)

streetstring

zipstring

citystring

countrystring

statestring

contact_namestring

The full name of a person.

emailstring

An e-mail address.

telephonestring

homepagestring

opening_hoursstring

The opening hours in OpenStreetMap format.

Specification: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:opening_hours

Reference implementations: https://github.com/opening-hours/

Generator tool: https://projets.pavie.info/yohours/

The service trims leading/trailing whitespaces and stores values as is. Values are currently not validated against the OSM format syntax!

founded_onstring date

The date on which an organization, initiative, or company has been founded or established.

categoriesstring[]

tagsTag[]

image_urlstring

image_link_urlstring

licensestring

Example request

{
  "lat": 37.2,
  "lng": 120.7,
  "contact_name": "John Smith",
  "email": "john.smith@example.com",
  "telephone": "001 123456789",
  "homepage": "https://www.slowtec.de/",
  "opening_hours": "24/7",
  "founded_on": "1945-10-24",
  "tags": [
    "organic",
    "non-profit"
  ],
  "image_url": "https://www.slowtec.de/",
  "image_link_url": "https://www.slowtec.de/",
  "links": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.slowtec.de/"
    }
  ],
  "license": "ODbL-1.0"
}

Response

Successful response

idstring

Identifier of a resource

status'created' | 'confirmed' | 'rejected' | 'archived'

created = initial status of each revision
confirmed/rejected = after positive/negative review
archived = final status

latnumber double

Geographic latitude (in degrees)

lngnumber double

Geographic longitude (in degrees)

titlestring

descriptionstring

categoriesstring[]

tagsTag[]

Example response

[
  {
    "id": "7cee99c287094a94acbdcf29ffff2e85",
    "status": "rejected",
    "lat": 37.2,
    "lng": 120.7,
    "tags": [
      "organic",
      "non-profit"
    ]
  }
]

Changes

Changed in 7 of the 50 revisions of this API.142121

Aug 8, 2021fdad7ffe40593See the full diff
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  the request property allOf[NewEntry]/categories became optional
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  the request property allOf[NewEntry]/tags became optional
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  the request property allOf[subschema #2]/license became optional
  request-property-became-optional
Aug 8, 202136db91c229091See the full diff
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  the request property allOf[NewEntry]/links became optional
  request-property-became-optional
Aug 8, 2021faa932c519e73See the full diff
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  the request property allOf[NewEntry]/categories became required
  request-property-became-required
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  the request property allOf[NewEntry]/links became required
  request-property-became-required
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  the request property allOf[NewEntry]/tags became required
  request-property-became-required
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  added NewEntry subschema #2 to the request body allOf list
  request-body-all-of-added
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  removed the request property categories
  request-property-removed
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  removed the request property city
  request-property-removed
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  removed the request property contact_name
  request-property-removed
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  removed the request property country
  request-property-removed
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  removed the request property description
  request-property-removed
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  removed the request property email
  request-property-removed
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  removed the request property founded_on
  request-property-removed
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  removed the request property homepage
  request-property-removed
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  removed the request property image_link_url
  request-property-removed
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  removed the request property image_url
  request-property-removed
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  removed the request property lat
  request-property-removed
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  removed the request property links
  request-property-removed
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  removed the request property lng
  request-property-removed
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  removed the request property opening_hours
  request-property-removed
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  removed the request property state
  request-property-removed
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  removed the request property street
  request-property-removed
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  removed the request property tags
  request-property-removed
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  removed the request property telephone
  request-property-removed
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  removed the request property title
  request-property-removed
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  removed the request property zip
  request-property-removed
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  added PersonFullName to the contact_name request property allOf list
  request-property-all-of-added
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  the contact_name request property type/format changed from string/ to /
  request-property-type-changed
This revision also has 1 change that name no endpoint, such as unreferenced schemas being removed. See the revision's changelog
Aug 13, 2020bca9ebb2d24a43See the full diff
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  added Email to the email request property allOf list
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  added Phone to the telephone request property allOf list
  request-property-all-of-added
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  the email request property type/format changed from string/ to /
  request-property-type-changed
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  the telephone request property type/format changed from string/ to /
  request-property-type-changed
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  added the new optional request property contact_name
  new-optional-request-property
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  added the new optional request property founded_on
  new-optional-request-property
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  the email request property's minLength was decreased from 3 to 0
  request-property-min-length-decreased
Aug 13, 2020ddfd4e39c98d4114See the full diff
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  added the new required request property description
  new-required-request-property
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  added the new required request property lat
  new-required-request-property
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  added the new required request property lng
  new-required-request-property
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  added the new required request property title
  new-required-request-property
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  removed NewEntry subschema #2 from the request body allOf list
  request-body-all-of-removed
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  added the new optional request property categories
  new-optional-request-property
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  added the new optional request property city
  new-optional-request-property
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  added the new optional request property country
  new-optional-request-property
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  added the new optional request property email
  new-optional-request-property
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  added the new optional request property homepage
  new-optional-request-property
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  added the new optional request property image_link_url
  new-optional-request-property
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  added the new optional request property image_url
  new-optional-request-property
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  added the new optional request property links
  new-optional-request-property
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  added the new optional request property opening_hours
  new-optional-request-property
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  added the new optional request property state
  new-optional-request-property
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  added the new optional request property street
  new-optional-request-property
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  added the new optional request property tags
  new-optional-request-property
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  added the new optional request property telephone
  new-optional-request-property
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  added the new optional request property zip
  new-optional-request-property
This revision also has 17 changes that name no endpoint, such as unreferenced schemas being removed. See the revision's changelog

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