MapQuasar is a geocoding API that allows users to perform various geographical operations such as geocoding, reverse geocoding, and distance calculation. It provides simple and intuitive endpoints to interact with geographical data.
Description: Geocodes an address to retrieve its latitude and longitude coordinates.
GET https://mapquasar.p.rapidapi.com/geocode?address=Tour Eiffel, Paris
Sample Response:
{
"latitude": 48.8582,
"longitude": 2.2945
}
Description: Retrieves the address information from latitude and longitude coordinates.
latitude (required): Latitude coordinate.
longitude (required): Longitude coordinate.
Sample Request:
GET https://mapquasar.p.rapidapi.com/reverse-geocode?latitude=48.8582&longitude=2.2945
Sample Response:
{
"address": "Tour Eiffel, Champ de Mars, Paris, รle-de-France, 75007, France",
"city": "Paris",
"state": "รle-de-France",
"country": "France",
...
}
Description: Calculates the distance between two sets of latitude and longitude coordinates.
lat1 (required): Latitude coordinate for point 1.
lon1 (required): Longitude coordinate for point 1.
lat2 (required): Latitude coordinate for point 2.
lon2 (required): Longitude coordinate for point 2.
unit (optional): Unit of distance (km/mi/nmi). The default is kilometres.
Sample Request:
GET https://mapquasar.getapikey.net/calculate-distance?lat1=48.8582&lon1=2.2945&lat2=48.8566&lon2=2.3522&unit=km
Sample Response:
{
"distance": 3.95
}
More information about endpoints can be found here: