OpenCage Geocoder API Search Command
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Overview
Details
This makes it easy to enrich your data with location information direct from the opencage api. The following information is available to you via this app for your specific long and lat location or place name:
- GPS Location
- Road Info
- Place Name (Town, State, etc)
- What3Words
- Information relative to location such as currency, dialling code and sunrise/set
This was developed in association with Converging Data as part of the Big Data Beards Road Trip 2 .conf 19! For more information, please check out the following links:
- convergingdata.com
- bigdatabeard.com
- https://opencagedata.com
- GPS Location
- Road Info
- Place Name (Town, State, etc)
- What3Words
- Information relative to location such as currency, dialling code and sunrise/set
This was developed in association with Converging Data as part of the Big Data Beards Road Trip 2 .conf 19! For more information, please check out the following links:
- convergingdata.com
- bigdatabeard.com
- https://opencagedata.com
Use
Using the search commands are simple and vary slightly depending on whether you wish to locate a place using lat and long or placename. Both commands are generating commands which mean they must be used as the first command just like metadata, tstats, etc
Lat and Long
| opencagereverse key=KEY long=VALUE lat=VALUE
Placename
| opencageforward key=KEY place=VALUE
You can obtain a key from opencage.com which currently offers a free tier consisting of 2500 calls per day.
Release Notes
Version 1.0.0
Sept. 16, 2019