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Last edit: 2020.05.19
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What is the Search API?
Search is a RESTful API designed for developers allowing single-line fuzzy search for addresses and POIs. Search assigns a latitude/longitude to a specific address, cross street, geographic feature, or point of interest (POI).
What is the Extended Search API?
The Extended Search API currently consists of 3 services.
- One for electric vehicles: The EV Charging Station Availability endpoint which provides information about the current availability of charging spots.
- The remaining two provide rich data for the Points of Interest (POI):
- The Points of Interest Details endpoint giving rating, price range, reviews, and photo IDs which can be used in the other end-point, Points of Interest Photos.
- The Points of Interest Photos endpoint to expose images of the POI.
Getting started
Use the following steps to get started.
- Register/Sign in to the TomTom Developer Portal.
- Request an evaluation API Key to access this service.
- Read the API documentation and start coding.
- Consider using the TomTom Maps SDK.
Common use cases you can implement
Here are some potential use cases.
- Search for an address, a POI (Points Of Interest), or a combination of both.
- Search for area, for example: "Chinatown".
- Search in the direction you are heading.
- Search for cross streets, for example: "Clay Street Drumm Street".
- Search for a POI near a POI or address, for example:
- "Coffee near XYZ company"
- "Restaurants on Main Street"
- "ATMs near AMC Theater"
- "Parking near 1234 Main Street"
- Search for available electric vehicle charging stations.
- Points of Interest Details
- Points of Interest Photos
Features
This is a high-level view of our Search API and Extended Search API features.
- Fuzzy search, with optional:
- Typeahead
- Fuzzines level setting
- Freetext and structured geocoding
- POI search
- POI category search
- Routed search (Deprecated)
- Geometry search, with:
- Point and radius
- Boundingbox
- Mature ranking, with Landmarks
- EV Charging Stations Availability:
- Search for available electric vehicle charging stations.
- Points of Interest Details
- Points of Interest Photos