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Give it a longitude and latitude inside the United States and it answers with the Census FIPS codes for that point: the 2-digit state code, the 5-digit county GEOID, and the GEOID of the congressional district. Parameters go in the query string: this is a GET, there is no body. The codes are the product and the names are a courtesy. A county GEOID is the join key to essentially every geography-keyed federal dataset -- the American Community Survey, BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics, BEA regional accounts, CDC WONDER, HUD, USDA, FEMA -- and the state code is its first two digits, so one call gives you both keys already in the form those tables expect. County GEOID is also the first five digits of a tract GEOID (11 digits) and of a block group GEOID (12), so it is the prefix you would filter a tract-level extract down with. COVERAGE, stated up front because the shortfall is the point: this endpoint answers state, county and congressional district, and it does NOT answer tract, block group, place or ZCTA. That is a size limit, not an oversight, and it was measured rather than guessed. A national compacted H3 index of tracts is 3196 KiB gzipped and of block groups 5335 KiB, at a resolution already too coarse for either; the whole Worker has 3 MiB compressed to spend and most of that was gone before this route existed. Those four tiers need an object store behind the Worker and will arrive with one. Every response repeats this under `coverage`, so an agent never has to infer it from a missing field. In the meantime geocoding.geo.census.gov answers all seven tiers, free, authoritative, at the cost of a round trip and a dependency. VINTAGE: TIGER/Line 2025, congressional districts for the 119th Congress. It is on every response under `vintage` and it matters more here than almost anywhere else in this catalog, because TIGER is re-cut annually and districts move with redistricting, so a stale district code is a wrong answer a caller cannot detect from the outside. Nothing here self-updates; a new vintage means a rebuild. The data is a work of the United States government and is in the public domain (17 U.S.C. 105) -- no attribution clause and no redistribution terms. ACCURACY, and this is the part to read before you trust a code. The boundaries themselves are full-resolution TIGER, the same geometry the Census Geocoder answers from, not a simplified copy. What is approximate is the lookup: the polygons are indexed as compacted H3 cells at resolution 7, about 1.22 km across, so a point within roughly 610 m of a boundary may be attributed to the neighbour. County equivalents and districts too small to describe at that resolution -- Falls Church city, the other Virginia independent cities, the congressional districts inside New York City -- carry a second index at resolution 9, about 87 m, and `boundaryAccuracyMetres` says which one answered you. Because a 610 m index is only useful if you know when not to trust it, every response carries `boundaryUncertain.county` and `boundaryUncertain.congressionalDistrict`. They are true when a neighbouring cell resolves to a different code, which means the boundary is close enough that the index cannot settle which side you are on. Measured against geocoding.geo.census.gov on 650 coordinates: on 400 population-weighted points the county code was right 389 times and the district code 383, and every one of the 11 and 17 disagreements was flagged; on 250 points drawn deliberately 100 m to 1500 m from a county line the county code was right 183 times, and every one of the 67 wrong county codes and 25 wrong district codes was flagged. Across all 650 it never returned a wrong code with the flag clear. It is generous in the other direction -- it flagged 74 of the 400 correct-heavy sample -- so treat `true` as "verify this one if it matters" rather than as "this is wrong". Outside the United States the answer is `found: false` with null codes and a paid 200, because "this coordinate is not in the US" is the answer you asked for. County polygons include their legal water area out to the three-mile limit and across the Great Lakes, so harbours, piers and lake coordinates resolve normally and only genuinely foreign or high-seas points fall out. Coverage is the 50 states, DC, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the US Virgin Islands. A small amount of water is inside a county but inside no congressional district, which TIGER publishes as a real polygon; that answers with a district whose number is null rather than with a guess. Longitude and latitude are checked against EPSG:4326 bounds before anything else touches them, because H3 silently normalises an out-of-range latitude into a real but wrong cell rather than refusing it. Reproject with POST /v1/transform first if you are not already in WGS 84. TIGER publishes in NAD83, which this reads as WGS 84; the two differ by under two metres, which is a fortieth of the index's own resolution.

Give it a longitude and latitude and it answers with the IANA timezone identifier (America/New_York), the UTC offset in force there right now, whether daylight saving is currently in effect and by how much, the local wall-clock time, and the zone's standard offset. Pass an optional ISO 8601 `at` instant to ask about any moment between 1900 and 2100 instead of now, which is what you want when scheduling something months out across a DST boundary. Parameters go in the query string: this is a GET, there is no body. Two halves, with different vintages, and the difference matters. The offset and the DST rules come from the runtime's own timezone database and are current: a rule change reaches this endpoint when Cloudflare updates ICU, with no redeploy here. The *boundaries* come from tz_world (efele.net), CC0 1.0 and derived from VMAP0, a public-domain US government product. That map was frozen at tzdb 2016d in May 2016, and this catalog sells public-domain and permissively-licensed data only, which is why it is used rather than the current OpenStreetMap-derived alternative. What the vintage costs, measured against IANA's own coordinates for all 312 zones in zone1970.tab rather than estimated: 293 agree. Of the 19 that do not, 7 are Antarctic research stations, which this map does not cover at all and which fall back to the open-water rule; 7 more return a different identifier for the identical offset and DST all year (Australia/Brisbane for Australia/Lindeman, America/Regina for America/Swift_Current, and five like them), so the time is right and only the name is old. That leaves four regions where the answer is up to one hour wrong because the zone was split after 2016: Chilean Magallanes and Aysen (answered as America/Santiago rather than America/Punta_Arenas or America/Coyhaique), the Mexican border municipalities around Ciudad Juarez, Saratov Oblast in Russia, and the weeks each spring when Asia/Hebron and Asia/Jerusalem change on different dates. If you query inside one of those, do not trust this endpoint. Boundary precision is a separate question from vintage. The map is indexed as compacted H3 cells at resolution 6, whose half-width is about 1.6 km, chosen to match VMAP0's own stated positional accuracy of roughly 2 km rather than to flatter the index. So a point within a couple of kilometres of a zone border may be attributed to the neighbour, and no amount of the source's precision would fix that because the source does not have it. Away from a border the answer is exact. Every answer says where it came from under `source`. `boundary` means the point is inside a mapped timezone polygon and is the answer you are paying for. `coastal` means it is over water or on land this map does not cover, and the identifier is the nearest zone within about 60 km -- correct for a harbour or a coastal city whose coordinate falls just offshore, and not a boundary result. `nautical` means open water more than about 60 km from mapped land, answered with the tz database's own rule for international waters, meridians 15 degrees apart; it is not the time kept aboard any vessel and it ignores territorial waters. Longitude and latitude are checked against EPSG:4326 bounds before anything else touches them, because H3 silently normalises an out-of-range latitude into a real but wrong cell rather than refusing it. Reproject with POST /v1/transform first if you are not already in WGS 84. The DST flag is decided on offsets rather than on the tz database's own isdst bit, so Europe/Dublin reads as daylight saving in summer like everywhere else, and it is measured over a window either side of the instant so that a zone which changes its standard offset mid-year -- Asia/Almaty in 2024 -- is not mistaken for one on daylight saving.

Echo endpoint. Returns the name you send, the network the payment settled on, and the price you paid. Use it to prove your x402 client works end to end -- discover, read the 402, sign, retry, get a body -- before you spend anything on a real endpoint. It is the cheapest route in the catalog and it computes nothing, so a failure here is a payment problem and never a geospatial one. Do not use it for anything else: it has no geospatial behaviour at all. It is priced at exactly what it costs us to settle one onchain transaction, so the whole of what you pay here goes to the facilitator and none of it to us. That is deliberate: this route is worth having only because it is genuinely paid, since a free echo would prove nothing about whether your client can pay.