Now that you're back, you probably saw a `GeoJSON` formatted response on the other side of that click.
Now that you've seen some examples of search, let's examine the results closer.
When searching for **30 West 26th Street** you got back a `GeoJSON` formatted response.
You'll always get back `GeoJSON` results, unless something goes terribly wrong, in which case you'll get a really helpful error.
You'll always get back `GeoJSON` results, unless something goes terribly wrong, in which case you'll get a really helpful error.
Now you know exactly where on the earth's sufrace **Stinky Beach** is located: `[ 139.86114, -37.33192 ]`
You can go [here](link.to.geojson.spec.com) to learn more about the `GeoJSON` data format specification.
You've also probably learned from the results of that request that this intriguing beach is located in **Australia**, more specifically in the **South Australia** region. You also have yourself a handy text label to use when talking to other humans about this place: **Stinky Beach, Nora Creina, South Australia**
We'll assume you're familiar with the general layout and only point out some important details here.
[Read more about the response format](https://github.com/dianashk/pelias-doc/edit/master/getting-started/response.md)
You will find the following top-level structure to every response:
```
{
"geocoding":{...},
"type":"FeatureCollection",
"features":[...],
"bbox":[...]
}
```
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.
```
{
"type":"Feature",
"properties":{
"gid":"...",
"layer":"address",
"source":"osm",
"name":"30 West 26th Street",
"housenumber":"30",
"street":"West 26th Street",
"postalcode":"10010",
"country_a":"USA",
"country":"United States",
"region":"New York",
"region_a":"NY",
"county":"New York County",
"localadmin":"Manhattan",
"locality":"New York",
"neighbourhood":"Flatiron District",
"confidence":0.9624939994613662,
"label":"30 West 26th Street, Manhattan, NY"
},
"geometry":{
"type":"Point",
"coordinates":[
-73.990342,
40.744243
]
}
}
```
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.
[Read more about the response format.](https://github.com/dianashk/pelias-doc/edit/master/getting-started/response.md)