In the Search service, there are multiple times when points are used. Points can be used to denote a point to search around, multiple ones can be used to create shapes to denote an area to search, and they can be used for user defined remote data. Below is a table demonstrating the different ways of forming points and how they can be used.
| Type | Description | Formats | Parameters Used With |
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| Address | A single-line address. For details on acceptable single-line address formation, refer to the Locations documentation. |
1555 Blake St, Denver, CO
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| Latitude/Longitude | Using a latitude/longitude pair. This is also called raw. |
39.750307,-104.999472
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| Simple Geo (WKT Standard) | This is the WKT way of formatting Simple Features. See the Simple Features Wiki description page for more detail. | POINT(39.750307,-104.999472) |
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| Compressed | This is a compressed format of a latitude/longitude pair. See the Compressed Lat/Lng description page for more detail, including sample source code and an interactive encoder/decoder. | _`wsF~lvpM |
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