Reverse geocoding

Coordinates in, the nearest address out, or the locality, region or country if that is all you want.

Parameters

Example

$ curl "https://api.mygeocode.com/v1/reverse?lat=41.8902&lon=12.4922&lang=it"

const url = new URL("https://api.mygeocode.com/v1/reverse");
url.searchParams.set("lat", 41.8902);
url.searchParams.set("lon", 12.4922);
url.searchParams.set("lang", "it");

const { result } = await (await fetch(url)).json();
console.log(result ? result.formatted : "nothing nearby");

import requests

r = requests.get("https://api.mygeocode.com/v1/reverse",
                 params={"lat": 41.8902, "lon": 12.4922, "lang": "it"}, timeout=10)
result = r.json()["result"]
print(result["formatted"] if result else "nothing nearby")

{
  "status": "ok",
  "lat": 41.8902,
  "lon": 12.4922,
  "result": {
    "formatted": "Piazza del Colosseo 1, 00184 Roma RM, Italia",
    "lat": 41.890251,
    "lon": 12.492373,
    "distance_m": 9,
    "type": "address",
    "precision": "house",
    "place_id": "it.addr.5d09aa31",
    "components": {
      "house_number": "1",
      "road": "Piazza del Colosseo",
      "suburb": "Municipio Roma I",
      "city": "Roma",
      "county": "Roma",
      "state": "Lazio",
      "postcode": "00184",
      "country": "Italia",
      "country_code": "it"
    }
  }
}

Response fields

Notes

• A large distance_m is a signal. A point in a park may be 300 m from the nearest address; in that case showing the neighbourhood is usually better than showing the address.
• level=country answers in about a millisecond and is the cheapest way to answer "which country is this point in".
• Points at sea return null at address level and, within territorial waters, the country at country level.

The same lookup in other providers' formats

If you already have code written against one of these providers, keep it: the drop-in host accepts the same path and parameters and answers in that provider's response shape, with this endpoint behind it. See how the drop-ins work.

Errors

400 invalid_request when lat or lon is missing or out of range, or level is not one of the listed values.