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For example, if you want to find a [YMCA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YMCA) facility, here's what you'd need to append to the base URL of the service, `search.mapzen.com`.
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Spelling matters, but not capitalization when performing a query with Mapzen Search. You can type `ymca`, `YMCA`, or even `yMcA`. See for yourself by comparing the results of the previous search to the following:
Note that the results are spread out throughout the world because you have not given your current location or provided any other geographic context in which to search.
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Now, you want to search for YMCA again, but this time only in Great Britain. To do this, you will need to know that the alpha-3 code for Great Britain is *GBR* and set the parameters like this:
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In this example, you want to find all YMCA locations within a 35-kilometer radius of a location in Ontario, Canada. This time, you can use the `boundary.circle.*` parameter group, where `boundary.circle.lat` and `boundary.circle.lon` represents your location in Ontario and `boundary.circle.radius` is the acceptable distance from that location. Note that the `boundary.circle.radius` parameter is always specified in kilometers.
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Going back to the YMCA search you conducted with a focus around a point in Sydney, the results came back from distant parts of the world, as expected. But say you wanted to only see results from the country in which your focus point lies. You can combine that same focus point in Sydney with the country boundary of Australia like this.
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If you are looking for the nearest YMCA locations, and are willing to travel no farther than 50 kilometers from your current location, you likely would want the results to be sorted by distance from current location to make your selection process easier. You can get this behavior by using `focus.point` in combination with `boundary.circle.*`. You can use the `focus.point.*` values as the `boundary.circle.lat` and `boundary.circle.lon`, and add the required `boundary.circle.radius` value in kilometers.
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If you use the `sources` parameter, you can choose which of these data sources to include in your search. So if you're only interested in finding a YMCA in data from OpenAddresses, for example, you can build a query specifying that data source.
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If you wanted to combine several data sources together, set `sources` to a comma separated list of desired source names. Note that the order of the comma separated values does not impact sorting order of the results; they are still sorted based on the linguistic match quality to `text` and distance from `focus`, if you specified one.
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This section shows how the various parameters can be combined to form complex use cases.
* All results near the Tower of London >[/v1/reverse?api\_key={YOUR-API-KEY}&point.lat=51.5081124&point.lon=-0.0759493](https://search.mapzen.com/v1/reverse?api_key={YOUR-API-KEY}&point.lat=51.5081124&point.lon=-0.0759493)
* All results near the Tower of London >[/v1/reverse?api\_key=search-XXXXXXX&point.lat=51.5081124&point.lon=-0.0759493](https://search.mapzen.com/v1/reverse?api_key=search-XXXXXXX&point.lat=51.5081124&point.lon=-0.0759493)
* Only OpenStreetMap results near the Tower of London
***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***
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:
Used to be (Beta) | New Parameter (V1) | New Behavior (if any) |
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## Reverse Coarse Geocoding
Reverse coarse geocoding is not a point-in-polygon lookup (finding the hierarchy for the polygon that the point falls in), but instead looks for the hierarchy of points nearby. To use reverse coarse geocoding, use:
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If a search returns `id: "geonames:3544:adm1:fr:fra:paris"` as the matching ID for a record, the complete underlying place record can be returned with:
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