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The Land API allows for the retrieval of geographic boundary and region data for various types of land areas and points of interest. For example, you can use this API to find all the campgrounds within a specific park/area/state/etc, or determine which park a particular campground is located in.

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Land

  • Administrative Regions: Cities, Counties, States, Countries, Reservations
  • Parks and Wild Areas: Parks (soon expanding to park type, “National Park”, “State Park”, etc)
  • Other Areas: Military: Private, Other
We’re expanding our data to include additional metadata for each land area, including: Regulations, management, descriptions, alerts, photos, etc.

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Points of Interest (POI) Types

POIs contain a Unique ID, Name, POI Type and Latitude/Longitude Coordinates. These IDs can be used to reference other endpoints in the API (campgrounds).

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Finding Land Areas and POIs

Land areas can be discovered through:
  • Name-based search across all land types
  • Location-based search by providing latitude/longitude coordinates
  • Getting parent/child relationships between lands and POIs
When searching by a point location, the API returns all land areas that contain that point. For example, searching at coordinates in Yosemite would return: 
{
  "lands": [
    {"name": "United States", "kind": "country", ...},
    {"name": "California", "kind": "state", ...},
    {"name": "Fresno County", "type": "county", ...},
    {"name": "Yosemite National Park", "type": "park", ...},
    {"name": "Yosemite Wilderness", "type": "park", ...}
  ]
}
To find Points of Interest one may get all POIs within a specific land area.