How to get coordinates from city and country with HTTP request

REST APIs
#1

Hello

I’m trying to find documentation to have the syntax to get from HTTP request with the country and city the geolocation coordinates.

Someone know where I can find the documentation or have the syntax ?

Thanks a lot for you help

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#2

Do you only need the center point of these geometries or the boundaries coordinates?
For both - Search API is the solution.
For example Fuzzy search endpoint can return location and the id for other endpoint to retrieve geometry vertices coordinates.
Docs: https://developer.tomtom.com/search-api/search-api-documentation-search/fuzzy-search
with Additional data you can get those boundaries.
Docs: https://developer.tomtom.com/search-api/search-api-documentation/additional-data

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#3

That’s a good question, And I don’t know how to answer.
I’m new in this, so I don’t know the difference between center point and boundaries coordinates. :frowning:

Can you explain to me what the first one, and what is the other one ?

Let give an example:
What I want is the latitude and longitude of Paris in France.

Thanks so much

#4

First what comes to my mind:

https://api.tomtom.com/search/2/search/Paris.json?countrySet=FR&key=*****

and it returns:

{
	...,
	"results": [
		{
			"type": "Geography",
			...
			"entityType": "Municipality",
			"address": {
				"municipality": "Paris",
				...
			},
			"position": {
				"lat": 48.85689,
				"lon": 2.35085
			},
			...
		}
	]
}

I recommend to play with API Explorer: https://developer.tomtom.com/content/search-api-explorer#/Search/get_search__versionNumber__search__query___ext_

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