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
All Citizen Ecosystems come with a default set of global data sources to get them started fast.
Currently the following data sources are being used:
The following data sources are being evaluated to be added as one of the default data sources.
Area Entities (e.g. region, district, building etc.) have their own data sources with their own rules.
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) |