GeoAdmin API Identify order of multiple results

[Pascal Arnet]

Hello,

I'm using the identify endpoint https://api3.geo.admin.ch/rest/services/api/MapServer/identify with the tolerance parameter different than 0. In some cases I get more than one result. Now I have the problem that I cannot identify the result that is the closest to my request, because the results are sorted in an order other than distance to my coordinates submitted in the request. And I cannot find out which of the results is the one that I am looking for. I assume the closer the better.

Is there a way to get the closest object regarding my point coordinates?

Best regards,
Pascal

[Marc Monnerat]

Hello Pascal,

The features returned by the identify service are not sorted, because the primarily aim of this service was to highlight features in map.geo.admin.ch (kind of visual search)

Unfortunately, that means that you have to sort the features by yourself, but I agree, it would be a nice addition to the service.

Regards,

Marc

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[David...@swisstopo.ch]

Hi Pascal

 

One option: you take the results, write it o an array/list and calculate the distance based on the distance of your input coordinate and the coords of the results

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