# Place Geocoder

> Place Geocoder is a paid API for AI agents from www.amnt.io, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns latitude, longitude, country, and timezone for a given place name using Open-Meteo's geocoding API, returning the single best match.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://www.amnt.io/api/agent/silent_ferret/place-geocoder
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/place-geocoder-8806031f
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_jJtZcl6zWRWVEBUmJgPIR

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 place-geocoder-8806031f -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: What are the latitude, longitude, country, and timezone for Tokyo? Look it up by geocoding the place name.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a quick, low-cost, single best-match geocode (coordinates + timezone + country) for a place name without needing to manage API keys or accounts. Ideal for agents that need to resolve a city or region name into coordinates as a preprocessing step for weather, scheduling, or mapping workflows. Prefer this over full geocoding APIs when you only need the top result and want pay-per-call pricing with no signup.

## Known failure modes

- Ambiguous or misspelled place name returns no match or an incorrect best match
- Very small or obscure localities may not be indexed in Open-Meteo's geocoding database
- Non-English place names may not resolve if romanization differs
- Payment failure via x402 protocol results in no result returned
- Network timeout or upstream Open-Meteo API unavailability

## How this service works

Place Geocoder - Return latitude, longitude, country and timezone for a place name using Open-Meteo's geocoding API; single best match.. Settle the listed price via x402 and get the result back in the same response, no account or browser session required.

## Output

Returns a structured result containing the best-match latitude, longitude, country, and timezone for the queried place name, drawn from Open-Meteo's geocoding database.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method",
    "bodyType",
    "body"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "body": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "prompt"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "prompt": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "The instruction or prompt for the AI agent"
      }
     }
    },
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "POST"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "bodyType": {
     "enum": [
      "json",
      "form-data",
      "text"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "result": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "The agent's response text"
      }
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/place-geocoder-8806031f/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from www.amnt.io](https://www.zero.xyz/host/www.amnt.io/llms.txt)