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Search Canadian places

Find Canadian addresses, streets, localities, regions and points of interest by name. BM25-ranked over roughly 19 million records, with bilingual and Indigenous-language names on the same record. Use this when you have a complete query and want the best answer. Canada only: a query for somewhere else returns nothing useful rather than an error.

• {"skill": "geocode_search", "query": "17 Ave SW, Calgary", "limit": 3}
• {"skill": "geocode_search", "query": "rue Sainte-Catherine, Montréal", "language": "fr"}

Look up what is at a coordinate

Find the Canadian places nearest to a longitude/latitude, ordered by true geodesic distance. Use this to turn a coordinate into an address or place name. A coordinate outside Canada is an error, outside_coverage, not the nearest Canadian place. A longitude or latitude outside WGS84 is 400 bad_request, not that code.

• {"skill": "geocode_reverse", "coordinate": [-114.0625, 51.0447]}

Find places of a kind nearby

Find Canadian features of a given category near a point, nearest first: pharmacies, cafés, parking, schools and so on. Categories are canonical ids like 'health.pharmacy', or plain English or French words like 'pharmacy' or 'pharmacie', which the API resolves for you. Prefer this over geocode_search whenever the question is 'what kind of thing is near here', because free text search cannot express a category and will match street names instead. A point outside Canada is outside_coverage, not the nearest Canadian place. A longitude or latitude outside WGS84 is 400 bad_request, not that code.

• {"skill": "geocode_nearby", "categories": ["health.pharmacy"], "near": [-114.0625, 51.0447], "radius": 2000}

Get directions between two points

Road distance, travel time and the route line between two points on the Canadian road graph. Exactly two points: there are no intermediate waypoints, so build a multi-stop trip one leg at a time. Pass steps: true for written turn-by-turn directions, in English or French (language); there is no voice narration. An endpoint outside Canada is outside_coverage. A longitude or latitude outside WGS84 is 400 invalid_location, not that code. A Canadian trip the graph cannot connect, including Iqaluit to the mainland, is no_route.

• {"skill": "route", "from": [-114.0625, 51.0447], "to": [-113.4909, 53.5461], "mode": "auto"}
• {"skill": "route", "from": [-73.5673, 45.5017], "to": [-73.5540, 45.5088], "steps": true, "language": "fr"}

Map how far you can get in a given time

Travel-time polygons ('how far can I get in 10 minutes') around a point in Canada, returned as GeoJSON. At most four time bands, each 120 minutes or less. Road modes use the road graph; mode 'transit' walks and rides scheduled transit from depart_at, and a transit band can be a MultiPolygon because a ride reaches separate areas. A centre outside Canada is outside_coverage, and the graph is not asked; so is a transit centre with no scheduled transit nearby. A longitude or latitude outside WGS84 is 400 invalid_location, not that code.

• {"skill": "isochrone", "near": [-79.3832, 43.6532], "minutes": [5, 10, 15], "mode": "pedestrian"}
• {"skill": "isochrone", "near": [-79.3806, 43.6452], "minutes": [30, 60], "mode": "transit", "depart_at": "2026-10-15T08:30"}

Identify what is at a point

Ask which Canadian catalog features contain a coordinate: which municipality, which survey cell, which well or pipeline or parcel. This is the click-at-a-point question, and it is not the same as reverse geocoding: geocode_reverse finds the nearest named places, identify returns the polygons the point falls inside. Defaults to municipalities, which every key can read. Industry layers need their add-on.

• {"skill": "identify", "coordinate": [-114.0719, 51.0447]}
• {"skill": "identify", "coordinate": [-114.0719, 51.0447], "layers": ["survey.dls"]}

List catalog features in a bounding box

Pull the features of one Canadian catalog layer that fall inside a bounding box: every well in a township, every survey cell over a map view. One layer per call. A layer that only draws as tiles and has no queryable table says so and names the ones that do.

• {"skill": "data_query", "layer": "energy.wells", "bbox": [-114.3, 50.9, -113.8, 51.2]}

List the Canadian layer catalog

The named Canadian layers unmap serves, with the source, licence, attribution, coverage and known gaps of each, plus which add-on it needs and whether it answers identify and bbox queries. Read this before promising a layer to a user: coverage is recorded honestly per layer and several are one province rather than national. Needs no arguments and touches no backend.

• {"skill": "list_layers"}
• {"skill": "list_layers", "addon": "energy"}

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