Location

A single geocoded location result returned by the positionstack API.

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Properties

Name	Type	Description
latitude	number
longitude	number
type	string
name	string
number	stringnull
postal_code	stringnull
street	stringnull
confidence	number
region	stringnull
region_code	stringnull
county	stringnull
locality	stringnull
administrative_area	stringnull
neighbourhood	stringnull
country	string
country_code	string
continent	stringnull
label	string
map_url	stringnull
distance	numbernull	Distance in meters from query coordinates (reverse only).

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JSON Schema

{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://api-evangelist.github.io/positionstack/json-schema/positionstack-location-schema.json",
  "title": "Location",
  "description": "A single geocoded location result returned by the positionstack API.",
  "type": "object",
  "required": ["latitude", "longitude", "label", "country", "country_code"],
  "properties": {
    "latitude": { "type": "number", "minimum": -90, "maximum": 90 },
    "longitude": { "type": "number", "minimum": -180, "maximum": 180 },
    "type": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": ["address", "venue", "street", "neighbourhood", "borough", "locality", "county", "macrocounty", "region", "macroregion", "country", "coarse", "postalcode"]
    },
    "name": { "type": "string" },
    "number": { "type": ["string", "null"] },
    "postal_code": { "type": ["string", "null"] },
    "street": { "type": ["string", "null"] },
    "confidence": { "type": "number", "minimum": 0, "maximum": 1 },
    "region": { "type": ["string", "null"] },
    "region_code": { "type": ["string", "null"] },
    "county": { "type": ["string", "null"] },
    "locality": { "type": ["string", "null"] },
    "administrative_area": { "type": ["string", "null"] },
    "neighbourhood": { "type": ["string", "null"] },
    "country": { "type": "string" },
    "country_code": { "type": "string", "pattern": "^[A-Z]{3}$" },
    "continent": { "type": ["string", "null"] },
    "label": { "type": "string" },
    "map_url": { "type": ["string", "null"], "format": "uri" },
    "distance": { "type": ["number", "null"], "description": "Distance in meters from query coordinates (reverse only)." }
  }
}