---
title: "Nearby Wikimedia Commons area media context"
method: POST
path: "/api/locus-wikimedia-commons-area-context"
tags: ["wikimedia", "images", "area-context", "secondary-source", "reference-research", "national", "read-only", "paid", "x402", "category:infrastructure"]
---

# Nearby Wikimedia Commons area media context

`POST /api/locus-wikimedia-commons-area-context`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.locus.report`
- URL: `https://api.locus.report/api/locus-wikimedia-commons-area-context`
- Auth: API key in header `PAYMENT-SIGNATURE`

Geotagged Wikimedia Commons media with item-level license metadata for area research. Returns source and image URLs with license and attribution leads; no pixels stored. Nearby context, not premises or condition proof; metadata alone is not reuse permission. Charge-free on no eligible media or source failure.

## Request body

- object
  - `address` string: US street address or named place to geocode when latitude/longitude are not provided.
  - `latitude` number: Decimal latitude; provide with longitude to skip address geocoding.
  - `longitude` number: Decimal longitude; provide with latitude to skip address geocoding.
  - `radiusMeters` integer, required: Bounded Wikimedia Commons geosearch radius in meters; default 2000, minimum 100, maximum 5000.
  - `limit` integer, required: Maximum nearby image records with allowlisted item-level license metadata returned; default 15, maximum 25.

## Response `200`

Atomic read result. A substantive result is paid; an empty/out-of-coverage result carries charged:false (x402 settlement suppressed).

- object

## Other responses

- `400`: Invalid request body.
- `402`: Payment Required. For x402 v2, repeat the identical request with a valid PAYMENT-SIGNATURE header (legacy X-PAYMENT is accepted for compatibility). MPP is disabled for paid-only atomic research.

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