TomTom reverse Geocode not returning street name for some gps coordinates

Question

For some GPS coordinates, no street name is returned. For example

https://api.tomtom.com/search/2/reverseGeocode/47.532289,-122.251843.json?key=MYKEY&roadUse=[%22LocalStreet%22]&returnRoadUse=true

returns

{"summary":{"queryTime":102,"numResults":1},"addresses":[{"address":{"routeNumbers":[],"countryCode":"US","countrySubdivision":"WA","countrySecondarySubdivision":"King","countryTertiarySubdivision":"Seattle East","municipality":"Mercer Island","postalCode":"98040","municipalitySubdivision":"Mercer Island","country":"United States","countryCodeISO3":"USA","freeformAddress":"Mercer Island, WA 98040","boundingBox":{"northEast":"47.535094,-122.241410","southWest":"47.534766,-122.242287","entity":"position"},"countrySubdivisionName":"Washington"},"position":"47.534897,-122.242287","roadUse":["Publicly Accessible","LocalStreet","Terminal"]}]}

Which contains no street name. Is there anyway to tell the TomTom API to return results that ALWAYS include a street name?

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 28 '19 at 08:12

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This may be a hack, but if we create a pedestrian route starting with that location (in the middle of Lake Washington) the first instruction starts usually at the closest street that can be navigable, isn't?

edited May 28 '19 at 08:12

tripleee

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answered Apr 15 '19 at 12:58

JJ Rojas

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 21 '19 at 10:04

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These coordinates are pointing to a lake. And the nearest road is some living street with no name. So that is not a perfect example.

answered Mar 21 '19 at 10:04

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There is no way to tell the API to return the closest street name? – Arya Mar 21 '19 at 16:55
So are you expecting that this API is returning something like "unnamed road"? – szogoon Mar 21 '19 at 19:53
That is not feasible – szogoon Mar 23 '19 at 17:17

TomTom reverse Geocode not returning street name for some gps coordinates

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