To use the Mapzen Search service, you must first obtain a free, developer API key. Sign in at https://mapzen.com/developers to create and manage your API keys.
To use the Mapzen Search service, you must first obtain a free developer API key. Sign in at https://mapzen.com/developers to create and manage your API keys.
1. Go to https://mapzen.com/developers.
2. Sign in with your GitHub account. If you have not done this before, you need to agree to the terms first.
***From Rhonda -- looks like this returns a radio station in Michigan? Also need to redo the query to include production server and the reader's API key***
*** From Rhonda -- what are some examples of when you would use a /place search? When would you have this info and need to get the details? What would you do with it.***
## Search for multiple places in a query
To search for more than one `/place` in a request, join multiple values together and separate them with a comma. For example, this /place query looks up the Eiffel Tower in OSM and `30 West 26th St, New York, NY` in OpenAddresses:
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![](/getting-started/images/world_rect.png)
To specify the boundary using a rectangle, you need latitude, longitude coordinates for two diagonals of the bounding box (the mininum and the maximum latitude, longitude).
To specify the boundary using a rectangle, you need latitude, longitude coordinates for two diagonals of the bounding box (the minimum and the maximum latitude, longitude).
For example, to find a YMCA within the state of Texas, you can set the `boundary.rect.*` parameter to values representing the bounding box around Texas: min_lon=-106.65 min_lat=25.84 max_lon=-93.51 max_lat=36.5
Tip: You can look up a bounding box for a known region with this [web tool](http://boundingbox.klokantech.com/)*
Tip: You can look up a bounding box for a known region with this [web tool](http://boundingbox.klokantech.com/)
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By specifying a `focus.point`, nearby places will be scored higher depending on how close they are to the `focus.point` so that places with higher scores will appear higher in the results list. The effect of this scoring boost diminishes to zero after 100 kilometers away from the `focus.point`. After all the nearby results have been found, additional results will come from the rest of the world, without any further location-based prioritization.
To find YMCA again, but this time near the a specific coordinate location (representing the Sydney Opera House) in Sydney, Australia.
To find YMCA again, but this time near a specific coordinate location (representing the Sydney Opera House) in Sydney, Australia, use `focus.point`.
If you were using Pelias from within a browser with client-side javascript (using Pelias on a domain that is different mapzen.com), you should know that Mapzen Search does not support JSONP requests to get around cross-site scripting limitations.
If you were using Pelias from within a browser with client-side Javascript (using Pelias on a domain that is different mapzen.com), you should know that Mapzen Search does not support JSONP requests to get around cross-site scripting limitations.
Instead, Mapzen Search supports [Cross-Origin Resource Sharing](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Access_control_CORS) (CORS), which enables secure cross-site data transfers.
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Words go to: [search@mapzen.com](mailto:search@mapzen.com)
Issues go to [Github](https://github.com/pelias/pelias-doc/issues)
Issues go to [GitHub](https://github.com/pelias/pelias-doc/issues)