Integration Guide

Relevant POIs and Neighborhood Context via API

Not just all POIs within a radius, but contextually relevant places — ranked by significance and enriched with travel times.

Curated POIs
Relevance over Radius
With Travel Times

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The Problem

Developers need controlled POIs for listings and recommendations — not "everything within radius", but the 5 relevant places with context: category, relevance, travel time. For UI highlights and explainability.

How GeoSci Helps

GeoSci delivers curated POIs as part of rating responses. Each rating category can include relevant POI locations with details.

POIs ranked by significance, not distance
Categorized and enriched with travel times
Contextually selected for each location

Typical Integration Patterns

POI highlights in listings: Display the top-5 relevant places with travel time and category.
Explainable scores: "Why is the shopping score 8/10?" — Because supermarket, bakery, and drugstore are reachable in 5 minutes on foot.
Map integration: POIs as markers on the listing map with category filtering.

Quickstart

curl "https://api.geosci.de/places/13.405,52.52/ratings/shopping/pois" \
  --header "Authorization: Apikey $GEOSCI_API_KEY"

Response (excerpt):

{
  "ratingName": "Shopping",
  "pois": {
    "type": "FeatureCollection",
    "features": [{
      "properties": {
        "name": "REWE",
        "type": "supermarket",
        "travel_time_seconds": 180,
        "travel_mode": "FOOT",
        "direct_distance_meters": 320
      }
    }]
  }
}

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