Open Places API

Coverage

Places API for United Kingdom.

3,184,637 places in the United Kingdom, searchable with one GET request. England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, all covered in the global index.

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One request away.

Search "fish and chips" near London (51.5072, -0.1276) and get JSON back: names, coordinates, categories, structured addresses, and distances in miles. 

curl -G "https://api.openplacesapi.com/v1/places" \
  --data-urlencode "q=fish and chips" \
  --data-urlencode "lat=51.5072" \
  --data-urlencode "lon=-0.1276" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPEN_PLACES_API_KEY"

Coordinates to try: London 51.5072, -0.1276 · Manchester 53.4808, -2.2426 · Edinburgh 55.9533, -3.1883

What you can build with it.

Travel & itinerary apps

Surface food, sights, and services around hotels and route points across the United Kingdom.

"What's nearby" features

Real estate, delivery zones, and store finders: anything that asks what's near a coordinate.

AI agents

Give an agent real United Kingdom places instead of hallucinated ones. See the agent guide.

United Kingdom coverage FAQ.

Does Open Places API cover the United Kingdom?

Yes. 3,184,637 places in the United Kingdom are searchable today. Density, freshness, and field completeness vary by location.

Where does the United Kingdom place data come from?

From the Overture Maps Foundation Places dataset: open data backed by Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and TomTom. Open Places API follows Overture's monthly release cycle.

Can I add my own places in the United Kingdom?

Yes. Account-owned layers let you add private records, correct base data, and suppress places, merged into every search your API keys make, on top of or instead of the Overture base.

What does it cost?

Plans are flat with hard caps: free for 10,000 searches a month, $19 for 30,000, $49 for 100,000, $249 for 1 million. When you hit the cap the API returns a 402 and stops. It never bills an overage.

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Spotlights are editorial deep dives, not the edge of coverage. The API is global wherever the current Overture release has Places data; the coverage page has the full inventory.