Get nearby places

This endpoint returns an array of pages for places near a set of coordinates, with the ability to set what threshold to consider as “near.”

Request

Path Parameters
Query Parameters	Value
`lat`	The latitude of your starting point.
`lon`	The longitude of your starting point.
`dist`	Optional. The distance in meters to look from the starting point. This defaults to 10,000 (10 km) if you don’t provide anything.

Examples

Example Request

GET /v1/near/51.178889/-1.826111/25000 HTTP/1.1
Host: api.thefifthworld.com

Response

If you don’t provide a latitude and longitude, the API responds with a 500 HTTP response. If you do provide both a latitude and a longitude, the endpoint responds with a 200 HTTP status and a JSON object providing an array of pages that describe places within the search radius.

Page Object
Property	Value Type	Value
`id`	`number`	The page’s unique numerical ID.
`title`	`string`	The title of the page.
`description`	`string`	The page’s description. It appears in the page’s header provided to search engines, social media, and other such bots and spiders.
`slug`	`string`	A string used to create the page’s unique path.
`path`	`string`	The unique path of this page on the Fifth World website. If you add `https://thefifthworld.com` to the front of this string, you’ll have its URL. By default, we create this string by taking the path of the page’s parent and appending a `/` and the page’s own slug to it.
`parent`	`number`	The unique numerical ID of this page’s parent page. If equal to `0`, that means that this page does not have a parent.
`data`	`object`	Any structured data associated with the current version fo the page.
`depth`	`number`	How “deep” the page appears in the overall page hierarchy. A page that has no parent has a depth of 0. Such a page’s child would have a depth of 1, and if that page has a child, its depth will equal 2. If you wanted to trace the lineage of a page back to a “root” page that has no parents, this number tells you how many pages you will need to trace to get there.
`permissions`	`object`	This object has three properties: `read` (a boolean that indicates if you have read permission for this page, which should alwways equal `true`), `write` (a boolean that indicates if you have write permission for this page), and `code`. This last three-digit code uses the same conventions as Unix permissions, with the owner understood as the person who created the page, the group understood as authenticated members of the Fifth World, and the world understood as the general public. Pages default to `774`, meaning that any authenticated member of the Fifth World can edit them, and anyone in the world can read them. A hidden page has a value of `700`, allowing its owner to see and edit it, but no one else. A locked page has a value of `444`, allowing anyone to see it, but only administrators to edit it.
`type`	`string`	The page’s type.
`tags`	`object`	An object that provides the key/value pairs of the page’s tags.
`location`	`object` or `boolean`	If a page has a location associated with it (as pages of type `Place` should), this property provides an object, which itself provides two properties, both numbers: `lat` (which provides the location’s latitude) and `lon` (which provides the location’s longitude). If a page does not have any location associated with it, this property equals `false`.
`likes`	`array`	This property provides an array of the unique member ID’s of everyone who has liked this page.
`files`	`array`	This property provides an array of File objects (see below).
`owner`	`object`	The page’s owner (the person who first created it). This object includes properties `id` (the member’s unique numerical ID) and `name` (the string that this member has provided for hens name).
`history`	`array`	This property provides an array of Change objects (see below), providing the history of changes made to this page.
`lineage`	`array`	This property includes an array of this page’s “ancestors,” so if this page has a parent, a Page object for that page will appear in this array, and if that page has a parent, a Page object for its parent will also appear in the array. The “root” page (the one that has no parent of its own) appears first, and the page’s direct parent comes last. If the page has no parent, then you will find an empty array here.

File Object
Property	Value Type	Value
`name`	`string`	The unique key used to find the file on the CDN.
`thumbnail`	`string`	The unique key used to find the file’s thumbnail on the CDN. Only images have thumbnails.
`mime`	`string`	The MIME type of this file.
`size`	`number`	The file’s size in bytes.
`readableSize`	`string`	The file’s size, parsed into a human-readable string (e.g., if `size` equals 104,864, then `readableSize` will equal 104.9 kB).
`page`	`number`	The unique numerical ID of the page this file belongs to.
`timestamp`	`number`	When the uploader uploaded this file, presented as a Unix Epoch timestamp (the number of seconds since midnight on 1 January 1970 UTC).
`uploader`	`number`	The unique numerical ID of the member who uploaded this file.
`urls`	`object`	An object with two properties: `full` (providing the URL from which you can access the full file on the CDN) and `thumbnail` (providing the URL from which you can access the thumbnail on the CDN). Only images have thumbnails.

Change Object
Property	Value Type	Value
`id`	`number`	A unique numerical ID for this change.
`timestamp`	`string`	The time when this change happened.
`msg`	`string`	The commit message that the editor provided to explain the change and why hen made it.
`content`	`object`	An object providing the content of the changes made. Many of these properties map to those in the Page object, but they usually include the `body` property as well. This property includes the unparsed wikitext of the page. When you view the page, the content displayed comes from the `body` property of the most recent change made, parsed into HTML.
`editor`	`object`	An object with two properties: `id` (the unique numerical ID of the member who made this change) and `name` (the name that the member who made this change provided for henself).

Example

Example Response

[
  {
    "id": 44377,
    "title": "Stonehenge",
    "description": "Stonehenge has stood on the Salisbury Plain of the River Avon's watershed for some 5,000 years.",
    "slug": "stonehenge",
    "path": "/eurasia/europe/british-isles/avon/stonehenge",
    "parent": 44376,
    "depth": 4,
    "permissions": 774,
    "type": "Place",
    "tags": {},
    "location": {
      "lat": 51.178889,
      "lon": -1.826111
    },
    "likes": [],
    "files": [],
    "owner": {
      "id": 1004,
      "name": "Jason Godesky"
    },
    "history": [
      {
        "id": 164312,
        "timestamp": "2020-11-26T00:29:53.000Z",
        "msg": "",
        "content": {
          "title": "Stonehenge",
          "path": "/eurasia/europe/british-isles/avon/stonehenge",
          "parent": "/eurasia/europe/british-isles/avon",
          "body": "**Stonehenge** has stood on the Salisbury Plain of the [[River Avon|River Avon's watershed]] for some 5,000 years.\r\n\r\n[[Location:51.178889,-1.826111]]",
          "description": "",
          "image": "",
          "msg": ""
        },
        "editor": {
          "name": "Jason Godesky",
          "id": 1004
        }
      }
    ],
    "lineage": [
      {
        "id": 245,
        "title": "Eurasia",
        "description": "Eurasia spans across a greater area than any other continent. It lies primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres, stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.",
        "slug": "eurasia",
        "path": "/eurasia",
        "parent": 0,
        "depth": 0,
        "permissions": 774,
        "type": "Continent",
        "tags": {},
        "location": false,
        "owner": {
          "id": 1004,
          "name": "Jason Godesky"
        }
      },
      {
        "id": 44339,
        "title": "Europe",
        "description": "Europe lies at the western end of Eurasia. Many Europeans have deemed this peninsula a continent unto itself, but this has little to do with geography, and much more to do with history.",
        "slug": "europe",
        "path": "/eurasia/europe",
        "parent": 245,
        "depth": 1,
        "permissions": 774,
        "type": "Region",
        "tags": {},
        "location": false,
        "owner": {
          "id": 1004,
          "name": "Jason Godesky"
        }
      },
      {
        "id": 44375,
        "title": "British Isles",
        "description": "The British Isles",
        "slug": "british-isles",
        "path": "/eurasia/europe/british-isles",
        "parent": 44339,
        "depth": 2,
        "permissions": 774,
        "type": "Region",
        "tags": {},
        "location": false,
        "owner": {
          "id": 1004,
          "name": "Jason Godesky"
        }
      },
      {
        "id": 44376,
        "title": "River Avon",
        "description": "The River Avon and its watershed",
        "slug": "river-avon",
        "path": "/eurasia/europe/british-isles/avon",
        "parent": 44375,
        "depth": 3,
        "permissions": 774,
        "type": "Watershed",
        "tags": {},
        "location": false,
        "owner": {
          "id": 1004,
          "name": "Jason Godesky"
        }
      }
    ]
  }
]