discovery
Resolve a name to a geographic entity
Resolves a place name to an entity ID, type, display name, center, source ID, and confidence score. Similar-scoring candidates produce an ambiguous result.
When to use: Resolve a place once and reference its entity ID in subsequent operations.
When not to use: Use nearby search for features around a point, or readEntity for an existing entity ID.
get/entities/resolve
Request
- Base URL: https://api.mapsource.io
- URL: https://api.mapsource.io/entities/resolve
- Auth: HTTP bearer
Query parameters
qstring required
The place name.
latnumber
Bias toward this latitude without hiding distant matches.
lonnumber
Bias toward this longitude.
limitinteger
Maximum number of candidates.
Response
Resolve a name to a geographic entity
Changes
No recorded changes to this operation across all 1 revision of this API.