Place Search
With Place Search, turn users' coordinates into named locations and named locations into coordinate pairs, and store the results.
With Place Search, turn users' coordinates into named locations and named locations into coordinate pairs, and store the results.
Location search
Connect people to the world around them. Transform user coordinates into named locations and named locations into coordinate pairs, and store the results. Location search and geocoding are tied to everything we build – maps, navigation, AR – and underlie all the apps that help users explore their world.
Place Search overview
Feeding the world's largest companies
The Mapbox Search API receives 2B requests per week and supports the scale of global companies such as Facebook, The Weather Company, Uber, Adobe, Snap, and Samsung.
160 data sources and translations into 39 languages
Place Search integrates more than 160 data sources to provide accurate addresses, locations, and point-of-interest coverage around the world, in 39 languages.
Reliable results with 99.9% uptime
Place Search is Mapbox's search API that is fast, stable and highly available for your applications.
Search and geocoding
With reverse search and geocoding so you can provide users with location context, turning GPS coordinates into city and place names, or place names into coordinates on the map. Run batch queries, store results in your database, and display them on a Mapbox map or anywhere you want.
Your users will easily find results with our autocomplete suggestions, and our fuzzy search algorithm helps provide relevant results, even with spelling mistakes.
The permanent Place Search endpoint allows you to store results forever.
Process and edit in bulk – up to 50 lat/lon pairs/addresses – using the permanent endpoint.
Our default rate limit of 600 requests per second is staggered with your use case – it's the limit of an enterprise plan.
Mapbox + Foursquare
Mapbox Place Search has integrated Foursquare's global point of interest (POI) data to increase the coverage, accuracy, and relevance of millions of locations around the world.
Access better global data coverage, with the latest content about the places your users want: restaurants, museums, parks, and more.
We select and combine Foursquare data to integrate with maps from Mapbox and other survey products.
Monthly data updates to ensure relevant and accurate results that reflect the world around you.
System Requirements
The API has client libraries for:
GLObjective-C and Swift (iOS, OS X, tvOS, watchOS) Android, Python, JavaScript
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