Can I show a neighbourhood boundary on the map?

When the area is mapped as a polygon, yes: /v1/place with geometry=true returns its outline. Otherwise you get the point and, usually, a bbox.

Can I store listing coordinates?

Yes, permanently, on every plan.

Solution

Property search starts with the right locality

Property portals search by locality first and address second. geolith returns localities, neighbourhoods and street addresses from one /v1/search or /v1/autocomplete call, filtered with layers=locality or layers=address. In the India benchmark (20 Oct 2026) the first result was right for 95.0% of OSM places and 95.0% of OSM addresses. Listing coordinates may be stored permanently, so you geocode each listing once.

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What is location search on a property portal?

Location search on a property portal lets a buyer or renter type a city, neighbourhood or street and see listings there. It needs autocomplete for areas, geocoding for each listing’s address, and area outlines or bounding boxes to frame the map on a neighbourhood.

Detail

Typical flows

A property site uses geocoding in three places.

Search box: /v1/autocomplete?layers=locality,county for areas, then address for exact listings.
Listing upload: /v1/search/structured with the address fields the agent typed.
Area pages: store the gid of each locality and fetch it with /v1/place.

Detail

Area outlines

/v1/place with geometry=true returns outlines for regions, districts and areas mapped as polygons, ready to draw on a map. A place with no outline in the data returns its point, and usually a bbox to frame the map.

Guides

See it in code

Show a place's boundary polygon on a mapSearch a place with geolith, fetch it by gid with geometry=true, and draw its outline on a MapLibre map, falling back to the bounding box when the place has no outline.Read →How to add address autocomplete to a Vue or Nuxt appA Vue 3 composable and component for address autocomplete with the geolith API, plus the Nuxt runtime config to keep the publishable key out of your source.Read →

Questions

Real estate and property search: questions

Can I show a neighbourhood boundary on the map?: When the area is mapped as a polygon, yes: /v1/place with geometry=true returns its outline. Otherwise you get the point and, usually, a bbox.
Can I store listing coordinates?: Yes, permanently, on every plan.

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