API Acre · Data Place Geocode

by API Acre

POSTBaseSolana

$0.002

per call · USD Coin on Base

Resolve one global city or locality name into bounded, population-ranked GeoNames coordinates, country and first-level-region identity, population, timezone, feature code, and source freshness without a request-time network call.

Endpoint

POST https://apiacre.com/v1/data/place-geocode

2

Calls / 30d

1

Unique payers / 30d

Sep 1

Last called

exact

Payment scheme

Call this service

TypeScript · @x402/fetch
import { wrapFetchWithPayment } from "@x402/fetch";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";

const account = privateKeyToAccount(process.env.PRIVATE_KEY);
const fetchWithPay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, account);

const res = await fetchWithPay("https://apiacre.com/v1/data/place-geocode", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "limit": 5,
    "place": "London, GB"
  }),
});
const data = await res.json();
cURL
curl -X POST \
  "https://apiacre.com/v1/data/place-geocode" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"limit":5,"place":"London, GB"}' \
  -H "X-PAYMENT: <signed x402 payment>"

Example response

{
  "data": {
    "ambiguous": true,
    "candidateCount": 2,
    "candidateCountCapped": false,
    "limitations": [
      "Coverage follows the GeoNames cities500 extract: populated places above 500 r...",
      "Matching is exact after Unicode-to-ASCII normalization; this endpoint does no...",
      "Unqualified names can be ambiguous. Review country, first-level region, GeoNa...",
      "Population-based ranking is a selection aid, not proof that the first candida...",
      "Results use the bundled 2026-08-18 snapshot and can differ from newer GeoName..."
    ],
    "query": {
      "limit": 5,
      "normalized": "london, gb",
      "place": "London, GB"
    },
    "results": [
      {
        "country": {
          "code": "GB",
          "continentCode": "EU",
          "iso3": "GBR",
          "name": "United Kingdom"
        },
        "geonameId": 2643743,
        "matchedNameType": "primary",
        "name": "London",
        "rank": 1
      }
    ],
    "resultsTruncated": false,
    "source": {
      "aliasRecords": 766415,
      "dataset": "GeoNames cities500",
      "placeRecords": 235408,
      "provider": "GeoNames",
      "snapshotBuiltOn": "2026-08-18"
    },
    "version": "apiacre-place-geocode/1"
  },
  "meta": {
    "cached": false,
    "duration_ms": 42,
    "next_actions": [
      {
        "method": "POST",
        "path": "/v1/data/us-weather-forecast",
        "reason": "Use one selected place candidate's coordinates for a separately authorized cu...",
        "service": "data.us-weather-forecast",
        "title": "Global weather forecast"
      }
    ],
    "sources": [],
    "warnings": []
  },
  "request_id": "018f1f54-7f38-7ba2-8dc3-5f90272d9f1a",
  "service": "data.place-geocode",
  "version": "1"
}

Payment details

Pay to0xa0bfa4f07281c9b248dc3aed2217836bca24869b
AssetUSD Coin · 0x833589fcd6edb6e08f4c7c32d4f71b54bda02913
NetworksBase, Solana
Schemesexact

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