geo_search

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Find places on the OpenStreetMap planet. resolve turns a name into a stable entity id — carry that through a whole workflow instead of coordinates, and pass it straight to geo_navigate, isochrones or geo_analyze. When two candidates score too closely it reports the ambiguity and returns no single entity rather than picking one, so add lat and lon to bias or choose from candidates yourself. entity reads an id back; ids encode their own source reference and resolve against the current dataset, so they never carry stale geometry. search resolves a name to a coordinate anywhere on Earth, ranked so the prominent match wins: a query for London returns the city before the Ontario town before Londonderry. Pass lat and lon to bias toward a point without hiding distant matches, and autocomplete does the same prefix-matched while a user is still typing. Alternate and translated names are indexed, so Munich finds München. nearby returns named features or a category within a radius, nearest first, each with its distance. reverse answers what is at a coordinate, preferring an addressed feature over a merely named one. details returns one feature by OSM type and id. geocode looks up a place by name. Every record keeps its OSM id and a link back to the object, so an answer can be checked and corrected at its source, and carries a meta block with the dataset time it came from. Category search covers cafes, restaurants, fuel, charging stations, hospitals, pharmacies, parking, hotels, transit and more; send an unknown category to be told the full list. An empty area returns nothing rather than a nearest guess from far away. Requires a subscription key.