Specific Provider Usage

Each provider has its own options, parameters or results because of its specific features.

Here is a table listing the parameters according to the providers:

Option, Method or Result	Parameter	Description	Provider
option	countryCodes	Restrict the results to one or more countries	Google Maps, LocationIQ, Mapbox, Nominatim, OpenCage
option	method	HTTP method to use when executing the query	MapQuest
option	clientId	To use a client ID instead of the API key	Google Maps
option	secret	URL signing secret to use to digitally sign the request	Google Maps
option	source	Source to use	LocationIQ, Mapbox, MapQuest
option	userAgent	User-Agent identifying your application	Nominatim
option	referer	Referer for the request	Nominatim
option	host	Host to use	Nominatim
geocode	countryCodes	Restrict the results to one or more countries	Google Maps, LocationIQ, Mapbox, Nominatim, OpenCage
geocode	bounded	Restrict the results to items within the bounds	LocationIQ, Nominatim, Yandex
geocode	proximity	Bias or filter the response to favor results that are closer to the specified location	Mapbox, OpenCage, Yandex
geocode	fuzzyMatch	Should approximate the request terms or do an exact matching	Mapbox
geocode	span	Bias or filter the response to favor results that are closer to the specified span	Yandex
geocode	minPrecision	Only results with at least this precision will be returned	OpenCage
geocode	components	Filter the results by components	Google Maps
geocode	types	Filter the results to a subset of location types	Mapbox
geocode	excludePlaceIds	For excluding some locations from the results	LocationIQ, Nominatim
geocode	skip	Number of items to skip in the response	Yandex
geocode	dedupe	Remove the duplicates	LocationIQ, Nominatim
geocode	noRecord	Ask for the query to not be logged	OpenCage
geocode	shape	Add the shape (geometry) to the results	Nominatim
geocode	shapeThreshold	Tolerance for simplifying the returned shape	Nominatim
geocode	channel	Channel to use for the request	Google Maps
geodecode	countryCodes	Restrict the results to one or more countries	Mapbox, OpenCage
geodecode	minPrecision	Only results with at least this precision will be returned	OpenCage
geodecode	precisions	Restrict the results by the given precisions	Google Maps
geodecode	types	Filter the results by location types	Google Maps, Mapbox, Yandex
geodecode	zoom	Level of details required for the address	LocationIQ, Nominatim
geodecode	reverseMode	How results are sorted	Mapbox
geodecode	skip	Number of items to skip in the response	Yandex
geodecode	noRecord	Ask for the query to not be logged	OpenCage
geodecode	shape	Add the shape (geometry) to the results	Nominatim
geodecode	shapeThreshold	Tolerance for simplifying the returned shape	Nominatim
geodecode	channel	Channel to use for the request	Google Maps
geocoded	attribution	Credit information	Bing, GeoPlugin, LocationIQ, MapQuest, Nominatim
geocoded	precision	Quality of the geocoding result	Bing, Google Maps, LocationIQ, MapQuest, Yandex
geocoded	precisionCode	Quality code of the geocoding result	LocationIQ, MapQuest
geocoded	precisionType	Quality code of the geocoding result	LocationIQ
geocoded	distance	Distance between the input location and the result location	LocationIQ
geocoded	callingCode	International telephone calling code for the country of the result	OpenCage
geocoded	placeId	Unique identifier for the location	Google Maps, LocationIQ
geocoded	osmId	Reference to the OpenStreetMap object	LocationIQ, Nominatim
geocoded	osmType	Reference to the OpenStreetMap object	LocationIQ, Nominatim
geocoded	mapUrl	URL to a static map thumbnail image for the location being geocoded	MapQuest
geocoded	partialMatch	Indicate the geocoder did not return an exact match	Google Maps
geocoded	streetAddress	Street number with the street name	Google Maps
geocoded	displayName	Full comma-separated address	LocationIQ, Nominatim
geocoded	categories	Categories of the location	LocationIQ, Nominatim
geocoded	types	Types of the location	Google Maps, LocationIQ, Mapbox, Nominatim, Yandex
geocoded	subLocalityLevels	Levels for the sublocality	Google Maps, LocationIQ, Nominatim
geocoded	shape	Shape (geometry) of the result	Nominatim
geocoded	flag	Emoji flag of the country of the result	OpenCage
geocoded	mgrs	Military Grid Reference System code for the center point of the result	OpenCage
geocoded	maidenhead	Maidenhead location reference for the center point of the result	OpenCage
geocoded	geohash	Geohash for the center point of the result	OpenCage
geocoded	what3words	Key words whose value is a 3 words address (3wa)	OpenCage