> [/v1/search?api_key={YOUR-KEY}&___text=30 west 26th street___](https://search.mapzen.com/v1/search?api_key={YOUR_API_KEY}&text=30 west 26th street)
@ -92,9 +92,7 @@ You will find the following top-level structure to every response:
For the purposes of getting started quickly, let's keep our focus on the **features** property of the result.
This is where you will find the list of results that best matched your input parameters.
Each item in this list will contain all the information needed to identify it in human-readable format in the `properties` block,
as well as computer friendly coordinates in the `geometry` property. Note the `label` property, which is a human-friendly
representation of the place, ready to be displayed to an end-user.
Each item in this list will contain all the information needed to identify it in human-readable format in the `properties` block, as well as computer friendly coordinates in the `geometry` property. Note the `label` property, which is a human-friendly representation of the place, ready to be displayed to an end-user.
```
{
@ -129,42 +127,46 @@ representation of the place, ready to be displayed to an end-user.
```
There is so much more to tell you about the plethora of data being returned for each search,
we had to split it out into its own document.
we had to split it out into its own section.
[Read more about the response format.](https://github.com/dianashk/pelias-doc/edit/master/getting-started/response.md)
#### Result count
## Result count
You may have noticed that there were **10** places in the results for our **Stinky Beach** search.
That's the _default_ number of results the API will return, unless otherwise specified.
Sometimes it's necessary to limit the search to a portion of the world. This can be useful if you're looking for places in a particular region, or country, or only want to look in the immediate viscinity of a user with a known location. Different usecases call for different specifications of this bounding region. We currently support three types: **rectangle**, **circle**, and **country**.
@ -174,33 +176,37 @@ Sometimes it's necessary to limit the search to a portion of the world. This can
In the case where you need to specify the boundary using a rectangle, all we need is a pair of coordinates on earth. Here are a few examples:
**What if you wanted to find museums in London?**
##### What if you wanted to find museums in *London*?
Below is the region that will be searched. Museums located outside of this highlighted region will **NOT** be included in the results. The museums returned will be sorted based on how well they matched the `text` parameter, in this case **museum**.
> [/v1/search?api_key={YOUR-KEY}&text=28 Main Ave&___boundary.rect.min_lat=51.286839&boundary.rect.min_lon=-74.258904&boundary.rect.max_lat=40.477421&boundary.rect.max_lon=-73.700378___](http://pelias.bigdev.mapzen.com/v1/search?api_key={YOUR_API_KEY}&text=28 Main Ave&boundary.rect.min_lat=51.286839&boundary.rect.min_lon=-74.258904&boundary.rect.max_lat=40.477421&boundary.rect.max_lon=-73.700378)
Diana Shkolnikov
9 years ago