From 5cd9dd30542fc536cff8984e525a6d80cf6cb587 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Julian Simioni Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 15:44:38 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Add Gid to notable features --- response.md | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/response.md b/response.md index b7a11b3..4cfd5bb 100644 --- a/response.md +++ b/response.md @@ -55,6 +55,9 @@ Each item in this list will contain all the information needed to identify it in ## Notable Features +### GID +This is a "global id" that can be used to reference a result with the [/place](/place.md) endpoint. It consists of an identifier for the dataset, a layer, and finally an `id` for the individual record. This `id` corresponds to stable ids from datasets wherever possible (such as the ID of an OpenStreetMap Node or Way), but not all datasets have them. + ### Label The `label` is a human-friendly representation of the place, ready to be displayed to an end user. The label field attempts to use a format that is appropriate for the region the result is in, although we only support a few countries at the moment.