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What's at this location?

Given a coordinate, return the address or place label. Useful for labelling pins and incident reports.

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GET /v1/geocoding/reverse
Why you need it

The problem this solves.

When the user clicks a map, your app needs a label, not just a lat/lon. reverse_geocode returns the closest address or place name with structured components, ready to display in a tooltip, incident report, or pin annotation.

What it does for you

What comes back in the response.

  • Closest address or place label for a coordinate.
  • Structured address components on the result.
  • Distance and bearing from the input point on each result.
  • Filter by place_types to ask for 'nearest street' vs 'enclosing locality'.
  • Standard GET + query params. Multilingual labels supported.
Built for
For SAR teamsFor public-safety GISFor AI developers
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Call it from your backend.

Predictable HTTP. JSON in, JSON out. One auth header. Use it from any backend, edge function, or script.

Read the full reference
GET /v1/geocoding/reverse
curl "https://api.footstep.ai/v1/geocoding/reverse" \
  -H "x-api-key: sk_live_your_key_here"

Related capabilities.

geocode

Turn an address, landmark, or place name into coordinates. Returns ranked candidates with confidence scores.

search_places

Points of interest near a location, by category or by venue name. Sorted by distance.

parse_address

Free-text in, structured out. Fixes typos, expands abbreviations, infers missing fields, and scores confidence.

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£5 free credit on signup. One auth header, every major runtime.

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