discovery

Reverse geocode a coordinate

Reverse geocodes against the local Photon address index and returns the nearest indexed house number, street, district, city, state, postcode, country and country code with coordinate, distance and OSM identity. Local Overpass candidates remain available as traceable fallbacks.

When to use: Retrieve a complete locally indexed postal address or place identity associated with a coordinate.

get/places/reverse

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.mapsource.io
  • URL: https://api.mapsource.io/places/reverse
  • Auth: HTTP bearer

Query parameters

latnumber required

Latitude in decimal degrees.

lonnumber required

Longitude in decimal degrees.

radiusinteger

Metres.

Response

Reverse geocode a coordinate

schemastring
placeobject nullable

Changes

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