Services: Geolocations
geolocations
This service provides geographic location mapping for cities above 25’000
inhabitants (~22750 cities), through either:
- matching of the (start-anchored) name
- providing GeoJSON compatible parameters:
geolongitudegeolatitudegeodistance
- optional, in meters; a default of 10’000m (10km) is provided
- can be used for e.g. retrieving all places (or data from places if used
with publication or sample searches) in an approximate region (e.g. for
Europe using
2500000 around Heidelberg…)
Query Types
- by
city
- start-anchored, case insensitive match
?city=heide
- by
id
- this uses the
city::country “id” value, e.g. lecce::italy
- by
geolatitude, geolongitude, geodistance
Examples
Links
2020-10-20
