X-Git-Url: https://git.openstreetmap.org./nominatim.git/blobdiff_plain/eaee87e73decb643939ddf3ce64cd6d6373d71e2..fd4ab3f262b0589f8c6fe475d166b412ac5beb76:/docs/api/Reverse.md diff --git a/docs/api/Reverse.md b/docs/api/Reverse.md index 664593d8..06d7cdea 100644 --- a/docs/api/Reverse.md +++ b/docs/api/Reverse.md @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Reverse geocoding generates an address from a latitude and longitude. ## How it works -The reveser geocoding API does not exactly compute the address for the +The reverse geocoding API does not exactly compute the address for the coordinate it receives. It works by finding the closest suitable OSM object and returning its address information. This may occasionally lead to unexpected results. @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ The main format of the reverse API is https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/reverse?lat=&lon=& ``` -where `lat` and `lon` are latitude and longitutde of a coordinare in WGS84 +where `lat` and `lon` are latitude and longitutde of a coordinate in WGS84 projection. The API returns exactly one result or an error when the coordinate is in an area with no OSM data coverage. @@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ This overrides the specified machine readable format. (Default: 0) "licence":"Data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0. https:\/\/www.openstreetmap.org\/copyright", "osm_type":"way", "osm_id":"280940520", -"lat":"-34.4391708", + "lat":"-34.4391708", "lon":"-58.7064573", "place_rank":"26", "category":"highway",