Geocoding API

High Accuracy

Connect place with logic: convert addresses to coordinates and coordinates to precise real addresses. High-performance geocoding and reverse geocoding for enterprise-grade applications.

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Overview

The Geocoding API converts free-text addresses into precise coordinates (forward) and coordinates back into readable addresses (reverse). Forward search runs on a self-hosted Photon engine for fast, typo-tolerant, multilingual autocomplete that covers streets, addresses and points of interest; reverse runs on Nominatim for accurate structured results. Relevance controls — location bias, bounding box, category and city sorting — let you tune results for any use case.

Forward geocoding (address to coordinate)

Reverse geocoding (coordinate to address)

Fast search suggestions (auto-complete)

High address accuracy

API reference

GET/api/1/geocode

Parameter	Type	Status	Description
q	string	Required	The address to search (e.g. "Nizami Street, Baku").
reverse	boolean	Optional	Must be true to perform reverse geocoding (searching from coordinate to address).
point	string	Optional	Coordinate (lat,lng) to reverse geocode into an address. Required when reverse=true.
limit	integer	Optional	Maximum number of results to return (1–20, default 5).
lang	string	Optional	Preferred language for result names (e.g. en, az, ru). Defaults to en.
lat	number	Optional	Latitude to bias results toward (nearby matches rank first). Pair with lon.
lon	number	Optional	Longitude to bias results toward. Pair with lat.
bbox	string	Optional	Restrict results to a bounding box: minLon,minLat,maxLon,maxLat.
osm_tag	string	Optional	Filter by OSM tag, e.g. place (settlements) or amenity:cafe. Prefix with ! to exclude.
city	string	Optional	Prioritize results in this city to the top (e.g. Bakı) without hiding others.
elastic	boolean	Optional	Elastic (fuzzy, high-recall) search — default true. Tolerates typos, missing diacritics (ə↔e), reordered words, generic words (metro, rayonu) and house numbers. Set false for strict exact matching.

Example request

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curl "https://osrmroute.com/api/1/geocode?q=Nizami&city=Bak%C4%B1&lang=az&key=YOUR_KEY"

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