The Compute Asset geographical database can be used to perform reverse geocoding.
Currently the following queries are supported:
| parameter | type | example |
|---|---|---|
| lat | floating | 12.858268 |
| lon | float | 34.294471 |
| radius | float | 1 |
| size | integer | 10 |
| layers | comma separated | address,venue |
| sources | comma separated | oa,gn |
| country | comma separated | FR,GB |
A list of geographical feature within the radius away from the point (lat, lon) will be returned along with
Currently the following sources are used:
| source | link |
|---|---|
| OpenStreetMap | http://www.openstreetmap.org/ |
| OpenAddresses | http://openaddresses.io/ |
| Who's on First | https://whosonfirst.org/ |
| GeoNames | http://www.geonames.org/ |
Extra data can be imported into the database
| source | link |
|---|---|
| Polylines | google format |
| CSV | addresses and their layers |
Geographical Layers (Layers) can be use to group similar geographical features together.
Currently the following are supported:
| layer | description |
|---|---|
| venue | points of interest, businesses, things with walls |
| address | places with a street address |
| street | streets,roads,highways |
| country | places that issue passports, nations, nation-states |
| macroregion | a related group of regions. |
| region | states and provinces |
| macrocounty | a related group of counties. |
| county | official governmental area; usually bigger than a locality, almost always smaller than a region |
| locality | towns, hamlets, cities |
| localadmin | local administrative boundaries |
| borough | a local administrative boundary, currently only used for New York City |
| neighbourhood | social communities, neighbourhoods |
| coarse | alias for simultaneously using all administrative layers (everything except venue and address) |