# Locus: Property Scan – Wikipedia Place Context

> Locus: Property Scan – Wikipedia Place Context is a paid API for AI agents from api.locus.report, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Retrieves public-record and parcel-rule context for a location using local records and Wikipedia place data, surfacing answered questions, open gaps, and next verification steps.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.locus.report/api/locus-wikipedia-place-context
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/locus-property-scan-wikipedia-place-context-e05e9841
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_OFx5v0VDAH0YV4pwzfLoz

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability locus-property-scan-wikipedia-place-context-e05e9841 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you run a Locus property scan on 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield — pull up to 10 public records within 500 meters of the address and tell me what questions are answered, what's still open, and what I should verify next?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a broad public-record and parcel-rule sweep for a specific address or coordinate pair — especially useful as a first-pass due-diligence step before committing to deeper paid data pulls. It is uniquely suited for surfacing not just what is known but explicitly flagging what remains open and what to verify next. Prefer this over more specialized siblings (tax distress, capital projects, census housing) when you want a general scan rather than a targeted data category.

## Known failure modes

- Address not resolvable or too short (minLength 5 violated) — request rejected
- Coordinates out of valid range (lat >90/<-90 or lon >180/<-180) — validation error
- Radius outside allowed bounds (below 100m or above 10000m) — clamped or rejected
- Limit exceeds maximum of 20 — rejected or capped
- No matching public records found for the given location — empty records array returned
- Payment not completed (x402 protocol) — 402 response blocking access

## How this service works

Geotagged English Wikipedia articles near a point. Perfect for: bounded community reference research with page, revision, distance, and license provenance. Geosearch is topic-agnostic and may return places, institutions, events, or people. Results are not official, property, resident, screening, or current-condition evidence. Charge-free when no article matches or the source is unavailable.

## Output

A JSON artifact containing a scan ID, a list of public-record entries (records array), the timestamp the scan was generated, and a caveats list noting any limitations or example-data flags. The records surface which public-record questions are answered, which remain open, and what should be verified next.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "limit": {
   "type": "integer",
   "default": 10,
   "maximum": 20,
   "minimum": 1
  },
  "address": {
   "type": "string",
   "maxLength": 200,
   "minLength": 5
  },
  "latitude": {
   "type": "number",
   "maximum": 90,
   "minimum": -90
  },
  "longitude": {
   "type": "number",
   "maximum": 180,
   "minimum": -180
  },
  "radiusMeters": {
   "type": "integer",
   "default": 1000,
   "maximum": 10000,
   "minimum": 100
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "id": "locus_example",
  "caveats": [
   "Example artifact; not live data."
  ],
  "records": [],
  "generatedAt": "2026-01-01T00:00:00.000Z"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/locus-property-scan-wikipedia-place-context-e05e9841/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.locus.report](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.locus.report/llms.txt)