Geonames: Search Places
Geonames via Parse · maps_geo
Search for geographic places/toponyms by name, country, feature class, bounding box, or coordinates. Returns paginated results ordered by relevance by default. At least one search parameter (query, name, or name_equals) should be provided for meaningful results; combining with country or featureClass narrows the result set. Offset-based pagination: pass offset to advance through pages of results. Access geographic data from GeoNames including place search, postal codes, reverse geocoding, and timezone information. Fulfilled by Parse from geonames.org.
- developer-tools
- geonames
- geonames-org
- government-public
- maps-geo
- parse
- platform-key
Price and execution
- Price
- $0.02 USD credits / call
- Trust tier
- Verified
- Execution
- Managed call
- Capability group
- maps_geo
Interface snapshot
- Protocol
- HTTP operation
- Operation
- GET /scraper/5c4ebe03-64d2-491a-aead-fb7fccb55c42/search_places
- Interface artifact
- sha256:c108d9e8f1dfcaa5f4bd9988cc2f20c130b3ac563d56d78b97bc7f3770632697
- Manifest digest
- sha256:54d8ad5424e988c1d1cdb3e54f054eb85ea1fcb5ff817828f2ee4f6fd43f11d1
Request fields
- east (number): Bounding box east longitude
- lang (string): Language for place names (ISO-639)
- name (string): Place name to search for
- west (number): Bounding box west longitude
- fuzzy (number): Fuzzy matching factor (0-1)
- limit (integer): Maximum number of results to return
- north (number): Bounding box north latitude
- query (string): General search query for place names
- south (number): Bounding box south latitude
- style (string): Response verbosity: SHORT, MEDIUM, LONG, FULL: Allowed values: SHORT, MEDIUM, LONG, FULL
- offset (integer): Offset for pagination (number of items to skip)
- country (string): ISO-3166 country code to filter by
- orderby (string): Order results by: relevance, population, elevation
- featureCode (string): GeoNames feature code (e.g. PPLC, ADM1, PPL)
- name_equals (string): Exact place name match
- featureClass (string): GeoNames feature class: A, H, L, P, R, S, T, U, V
- continentCode (string): Continent code: AF, AS, EU, NA, OC, SA, AN
Example queries
- {"lang":"en","name":"Paris","limit":"5","query":"London","style":"SHORT","offset":"0"}