API Name: geocode-api

Introduction

AfriGIS Geocode API uses text address input of a geographic feature(s) and provides the coordinates as latitude and longitude for that feature as output. At this stage, the Geocode API only consists of forward geocoding – text to coordinates and not reverse geocoding – coordinates to text.

Overview

Making use of the AfriGIS Geocode API, applications can match an address to its correct location by converting it into geographical coordinates. Applications submit an unstructured address or a search string containing partial address information. The result is either a single record exactly matching the input, or a set of records ranked by relevance when the input is ambiguous.

Geocode results can be restricted to return results based on a specific address type level.

Address Types

Part of the response include AfriGIS confidence levels. These are an indication of the level of accuracy to which an address has been located.

Confidence levels

Authentication

This API makes use of OAuth2 authentication. To integrate, sign up for a free trial account by contacting [email protected]

For detailed integration instructions using OAuth2, please click on the following link: https://developers.afrigis.co.za/oauth2-authentication/

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