# SYNTHORA Place Name Geocoding Search

> SYNTHORA Place Name Geocoding Search is a paid API for AI agents from geocoding-place-search.hergertsynthora.com, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status down (last checked 2026-09-15).

Resolves a place-name text query into ranked geographic coordinates with country, admin regions, population, timezone, and elevation data.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://geocoding-place-search.hergertsynthora.com/service
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: down
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/synthora-place-name-geocoding-search-f798485d
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_YQ9NBzwrVgQUFqSonHh6_

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 synthora-place-name-geocoding-search-f798485d -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Look up the coordinates, timezone, and elevation for 'Springfield' and return the top 5 matching places so I can figure out which one is in Illinois.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need forward geocoding — converting a place name string into geographic coordinates and associated metadata (timezone, elevation, admin regions, population). It is ideal for autonomous agents doing location disambiguation, travel planning, logistics routing, or any workflow that starts with a human-readable place name rather than existing coordinates. Prefer it over reverse geocoding services when you have a name but not coordinates, and over general-purpose map APIs when you specifically need ranked candidates with full geographic metadata at low cost per call.

## Known failure modes

- No matching places found for an obscure or misspelled place name
- Ambiguous results when a common name (e.g. 'Springfield') matches dozens of locations
- Count parameter set too low, missing the intended location in results
- Upstream Open-Meteo geocoding API unavailability causing empty or error responses
- Non-Latin or highly localized place names may return zero or poor-quality matches

## How this service works

Resolves a place-name query into ranked coordinates with country, admin regions, population, timezone and elevation from Open-Meteo's geocoding API. Autonomous mapping, travel, logistics and location-intelligence agents use it for A2A forward geocoding and agent-to-agent place disambiguation. Ranking surface: geocoding API, place search, city coordinates, forward geocode, location lookup.

## Output

A ranked list of matching places with latitude, longitude, country code, administrative region hierarchy, population, timezone identifier, and elevation for each result, structured as JSON.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "name",
  "count"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "name": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "name"
  },
  "count": {
   "type": "integer",
   "description": "count"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/synthora-place-name-geocoding-search-f798485d/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from geocoding-place-search.hergertsynthora.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/geocoding-place-search.hergertsynthora.com/llms.txt)