Search API

Points

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
Address	A single-line address. For details on acceptable single-line address formation, refer to the Locations documentation.	1555 Blake St, Denver, CO	origin locations
Latitude/Longitude	Using a latitude/longitude pair. This is also called raw.	39.750307,-104.999472	shapePoints origin boundingBox (has to be exactly two latitude/longitude pairs) locations
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)	shapePoints origin boundingBox (has to be exactly two latitude/longitude pairs) locations
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	shapePoints origin boundingBox (has to be exactly two latitude/longitude pairs) locations