Geocoding Engine

Geocoding, reverse geocoding, autocomplete and nearby search

Geocoding Engine

Search, Autocomplete, Reverse and Places APIs


Geocoding engine is the full stack of location-based searches. It offers comprehensive location search, autocomplete, reverse geocoding and places APIs from too many sources of the world such as OSM, Open Addresses, Geonames, Placeholder coarse geocoding, Whos on First etc. Its absolute beauty is it can geocode custom data through a structured CSV.

For more documentation and endpoints go to Documentation and Endpoint pages

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ENDPOINTS

Discover all the Search or Geocoding, Autocomplete & Places APIs and Endpoints


Search & Geocoding Engine Endpoints

1. Search or Forward Geocoding API
- {domain:port}/v1/search?text=hospital&size=25&focus.point.lon={{lon}}&focus.point.lat={{lat}}&sources=osm&categories=health&layers=venue
- Search API Test

2. Reverse Geocoding API
- {domain:port}/v1/reverse?point.lat={{lat}}&point.lon={{lon}}&size=5&boundary.country=LU&boundary.gid=whosonfirst:region:1745977427&sources=osm&layers=address
- Reverse Geocoding API Test

3. Autocomplete API
- {domain:port}/v1/autocomplete?text=Hosp&size=10&sources=osm&layers=venue&focus.point.lat={{lat}}&focus.point.lon={{lon}}
- Autocomplete API Test

4. Structured Search API
- {domain:port}/v1/reverse?point.lat={lu_lat}&point.lon={lu_lon}&size=5&boundary.country=LU&boundary.gid=whosonfirst:region:1745977427&sources=osm&layers=address
- Structured Search API Test

5. Place API
- {domain:port}/v1/reverse?point.lat={lu_lat}&point.lon={lu_lon}&size=5&boundary.country=LU&boundary.gid=whosonfirst:region:1745977427&sources=osm&layers=address
- Place API test

TEST ALL GEOCODING API...

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Test API

Stand-alone Geocoding Engine

LocusQ Master stack covers all the segments of web GIS such as maps, routing, direction, transit, geocoding and many more APIs. Besides this, Geocoding Engine can be installed as a stand-alone service if anyone does not need few other services or only 2-3 services. Here is the steps

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  1. 1
    Change the conf.yml file

    Change the configuration file according to your needs. Country-wise configuration code can be found here

  2. 2
    Run the standalone Geocoding Engine Docker

    Pull or run directly the Geocoding Engine docker image keeping the conf.yml file in the same directory from where the docker is running
    docker run -it --name geocoding-engine --network locusq -v $(pwd):/data -p 4703:3100 locusq/geocoding-engine:latest

  3. 3
    Get the APIs

    Wait a few minutes and check the status of service readiness with the following command
    docker exec -it geocoding-engine status
    When the service is ready, to get the APIs visit the Geocoding API endpoints.