find_places_near
Find places near a location
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Biblical places within a radius, nearest first, with the distance in kilometres. Anchor it on a place already in the knowledge base, or on a bare latitude and longitude when you are asking about a modern location that has no document here.
~1,300 places carry coordinates. Many sites are identified only tentatively — check contested and identifications on the place document before treating a position as settled.
total counts everything inside the radius, which a wide one puts well beyond a single page — walk the rest with offset, not by raising the radius.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| place | string | no | Anchor place path, e.g. "places/jerusalem" |
| lat | number | no | Anchor latitude, if no place is given. |
| lon | number | no | Longitude in decimal degrees. Must be given together with `lat`, and instead of `place`. |
| radius | integer | no | Kilometres. 50 by default. |
| limit | integer | no | How many places to return, nearest first. Defaults to 25, capped at 200. |
| offset | integer | no | For paging; compare with `total` in the response. A wide radius holds far more than one page. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"properties": {
"place": {
"description": "Anchor place path, e.g. \"places/jerusalem\"",
"type": "string"
},
"lat": {
"description": "Anchor latitude, if no place is given.",
"type": "number",
"minimum": -90,
"maximum": 90
},
"lon": {
"description": "Longitude in decimal degrees. Must be given together with `lat`, and instead of `place`.",
"type": "number",
"minimum": -180,
"maximum": 180
},
"radius": {
"description": "Kilometres. 50 by default.",
"type": "integer",
"minimum": 1,
"maximum": 20000
},
"limit": {
"description": "How many places to return, nearest first. Defaults to 25, capped at 200.",
"type": "integer",
"minimum": 1,
"maximum": 200
},
"offset": {
"description": "For paging; compare with `total` in the response. A wide radius holds far more than one page.",
"type": "integer",
"minimum": 0,
"maximum": 9007199254740991
}
}
}