If you want to enrich your application with relevant Points of Interest (POIs), we have an amazing GeoEnrich API. This API searches for nearest and relevant matching POIs for an address or location and also applying filters like name of POI, type of POI, category codes, sic codes, distance, travel time, etc.
Let's see couple of use cases to know how this API and the parameters work:
a) If you are building an application and want users to search for doctors around a particular address.
In the type parameter enter type as 'Doctor'. Enter the address in address parameter to search doctors around a particular address. You can use other parameters like searchRadius to get the list of doctors within a particular radius or you can use parameters like travelTime to search doctors who can be reached within a particular time by walking or driving by using travelMode parameter.
The response contains various details about POIs, like for clinics in this case, website of the clinic, year established, etc., which can further be used for processing. For example, you can filter the results based on yearStart parameter.
- b) If you are building an application and want users to search for a moving company in a particular location.
In the latitude or longitude parameter enter the location coordinates where you want to search for moving companies. If you know the name of a particular moving company you can type the name in the name parameter or in the type parameter enter 'moving company'. This API call will fetch all the moving companies around that location. To further narrow down your search you can use other parameters like categoryCode or sicCode (check the list provided with the API), for example if you are looking for a moving company that helps you move your furniture, office goods or household material, you might want to use a specific sic code. You can use sortBy parameter to get the best match or nearest results.
Similarly, there are many other ways by which you can pass the value in parameters to make search more relevant for you.
You can try this API at https://locate.pitneybowes.com/geoenrich
Stuck? Read the help document at:
https://locate.pitneybowes.com/docs/location-intelligence/v1/en/index.html#GeoPlaces/geoplaces_intro.html
Taking the first step? Know more about implementation at:
https://locate.pitneybowes.com/docs/location-intelligence/v1/en/index.html#GeoPlaces/Rest%20Implementation/rest_implementation.html
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Harpreet Singh Seehra
Pitney Bowes Software India PVT. Ltd
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