How to get intersections

Intersections allows you to retrieve all nearby intersections. This can potentially be used by emergency services and delivery couriers.

Potential use cases

• Emergency response: Emergency response vehicles often need to identify nearby intersections for optimal positioning when responding to calls. This allows them to maintain clear access routes and faster response times, while ensuring visibility from multiple approaches.

• Delivery couriers: Delivery couriers can utilize intersection data to find more efficient parking spots, especially in dense urban areas where door-to-door parking may be limited or restricted.

Example

Get secondary addresses

Sample request

{
    "QueryText":"910 Beach Avenue, Vancouver", 
    "AdditionalFeatures": ["Intersections"]
}

Sample response

{
    "ResultItems": [
        {
            "PlaceId": "<Redacted>",
            "PlaceType": "PointAddress",
            "Title": "910 Beach Ave, Vancouver, BC V6Z 2W7, Canada",
            "Address": {
                "Label": "910 Beach Ave, Vancouver, BC V6Z 2W7, Canada",
                "Country": {
                    "Code2": "CA",
                    "Code3": "CAN",
                    "Name": "Canada"
                },
                "Region": {
                    "Code": "BC",
                    "Name": "British Columbia"
                },
                "SubRegion": {
                    "Name": "Metro Vancouver"
                },
                "Locality": "Vancouver",
                "District": "Downtown Vancouver",
                "PostalCode": "V6Z 2W7",
                "Street": "Beach Ave",
                "StreetComponents": [
                    {
                        "BaseName": "Beach",
                        "Type": "Ave",
                        "TypePlacement": "AfterBaseName",
                        "TypeSeparator": " ",
                        "Language": "en"
                    }
                ],
                "AddressNumber": "910"
            },
            "Position": [
                -123.13325,
                49.27542
            ],
            "MapView": [
                -123.13463,
                49.27452,
                -123.13187,
                49.27632
            ],
            "MatchScores": {
                "Overall": 1,
                "Components": {
                    "Address": {
                        "Locality": 1,
                        "Intersection": [
                            1
                        ],
                        "AddressNumber": 1
                    }
                }
            },
            "ParsedQuery": {
                "Address": {
                    "Locality": [
                        {
                            "StartIndex": 18,
                            "EndIndex": 27,
                            "Value": "Vancouver",
                            "QueryComponent": "Query"
                        }
                    ],
                    "Street": [
                        {
                            "StartIndex": 4,
                            "EndIndex": 16,
                            "Value": "Beach Avenue",
                            "QueryComponent": "Query"
                        }
                    ],
                    "AddressNumber": [
                        {
                            "StartIndex": 0,
                            "EndIndex": 3,
                            "Value": "910",
                            "QueryComponent": "Query"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            },
            "Intersections": [
                {
                    "PlaceId": "<Redacted>",
                    "Title": "Beach Ave & Hornby St, Vancouver, BC V6Z, Canada",
                    "Address": {
                        "Label": "Beach Ave & Hornby St, Vancouver, BC V6Z, Canada",
                        "PostalCode": "V6Z",
                        "Intersection": [
                            "Beach Ave",
                            "Hornby St"
                        ]
                    },
                    "Position": [
                        -123.1328,
                        49.27536
                    ]
                },
                {
                    "PlaceId": "<Redacted>",
                    "Title": "Beach Ave & Burrard St, Vancouver, BC, Canada",
                    "Address": {
                        "Label": "Beach Ave & Burrard St, Vancouver, BC, Canada",
                        "Intersection": [
                            "Beach Ave",
                            "Burrard St"
                        ]
                    },
                    "Position": [
                        -123.13377,
                        49.27599
                    ]
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

cURL

curl --request POST \
  --url 'https://places.geo.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/v2/geocode?key=Your_Key' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{
    "QueryText":"910 Beach Avenue, Vancouver", 
    "AdditionalFeatures": ["Intersections"]
}'

AWS CLI

aws geo-places geocode --key ${YourKey} --query-text "910 Beach Avenue, Vancouver" --additional-features "Intersections"