Advanced geocoding service parameters

What is new in MapTiler Geocoding

• types - filter results to include only a subset (one or more) of the available feature types. See the type hierarchy below for allowed values. Multiple options can be comma-separated.
• autocomplete - Specify whether to return autocomplete results (true) or not (false). When autocomplete is enabled, results will be included that start with the requested string, rather than just responses that match it exactly. For example, a query India might return bothIndiaandIndianawith autocomplete enabled, but onlyIndiaif it’s disabled. The default is to combine exact results autocomplete.
  When autocomplete is enabled, each user keystroke counts as one request to the Geocoding API. For example, a search for "coff" would be reflected as four separate Geocoding API requests. To reduce the total requests sent, you can configure your application to only call the Geocoding API after a specific number of characters are typed.
• fuzzyMatch - specify whether the Geocoding API should attempt approximate, as well as exact  matching when performing searches (true, default), or whether it should opt out of this behavior and only attempt exact matching (false). For example, the default setting might returnWashington, DCfor a query ofwahsington, even though the query was misspelled.
• country - limits searches to a specific country. One or more countries specified as comma-separated values ISO 3166 alpha 2 country codes.
• limit - controls the maximum number of results to return. The default is5and the max support is10.

• country: You may want to search for places exclusively in Norway. This way you can effectively exclude Oslo - the capital of Norway, from other Oslo - located in Minnesota, USA.
• autocomplete and fuzzyMatch: Setting parameters autocomplete and fuzzyMatch to false will ensure that the result will contain only results exactly matching your query without trying to treat your input as possible with a typo or as a start of a complete place name. For example, if your search query is "koln" and the language is set to German, then the result will include Köln but won't include places like Kolin (in Czechia) or Kola (in Russia).
• types:

• country - the country
• region - the first level of division within the country
• subregion - the second level of division within the country
• county - the third level of division within the country
• joint_municipality - a group of municipalities
• joint_submunicipality - a group of sub municipalities
• municipality - a municipality
• municipal_district - a district within a municipality
• locality - a locality
• neighbourhood - a neighborhood
• place - a place, such as a municipality, hamlet, isolated dwelling, square, etc. Also serves as a fallback for places that cannot be categorized into higher levels of hierarchy.
• postal_code - postal code
• address - street and address

In the near future, Maptiler Geocoding plans to include country-specific localized hierarchy names in the geocoding response.

Useful links

MapTiler Geocoding DEMO
MapTiler Geocoding API reference