Working with points of interest (POI)¶

"Places" are business-specific points of interest (POI) like shops, delivery points, warehouses, etc. - which are visited by user's employees. Place entities can be extended with custom fields to make them even more useful.

In case an event happened at the POI, in various reports name of the POI will be specified after the address.

If there's an employee assigned to a Mobile Tracker App (Android / iOS), and a POI has a custom field of type "responsible employee", such point of interest will be available in the mobile app to view. Thus, field employee/driver can view all points of interest assigned to him to visit them, etc.

Working with POIs requires several actions so we described them in our guides.

Place object¶

{
  "id": 1,
  "icon_id": 55,
  "avatar_file_name": null,
  "location": {
    "lat": 52.366,
    "lng": 4.895,
    "address": "730 5th Ave, New York, NY 10019, Unites States",
    "radius": 500
  },
  "fields": {
    "131312": {
      "type": "text",
      "value": "I love text!"
    }
  },
  "label": "Crown Building",
  "description": "Here we buy our goods",
  "tags": [ 1, 2 ],
  "external_id": "1"
}

• id - int. An ID of a POI.
• icon_id - optional int. Can be 1 to 255. Can only be updated via avatar/assign.
• avatar_file_name - optional string. Name of the avatar file. Can be null.
• location - required information about place location.
  • lat - required, float. The latitude.
  • lng - required, float. The longitude.
  • address - required, string, max length 255. The address of place.
  • radius - required, int, 1..300000. The radius of place in meters.
• fields - optional object. A map, each key of which is a custom field ID as a string. See entity/fields
• label - string. POI name.
• description - optional string. POI description.
• tags - optional int array. A list of tag_ids. Non-empty.
• external_id - optional string. Max length 32.

API actions¶

API path: /place.

read¶

Gets POI by ID.

parameters¶

examples¶

curl -X POST 'https://api.navixy.com/v2/place/read' \
    -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    -d '{"hash": "22eac1c27af4be7b9d04da2ce1af111b", "place_id": 122304}'

https://api.navixy.com/v2/place/read?hash=a6aa75587e5c59c32d347da438505fc3&place_id=122304

response¶

{
  "success": true,
  "value": {
    "id": 1,
    "icon_id": 55,
    "avatar_file_name": null,
    "location": {
      "lat": 40.773998,
      "lng": -73.66003,
      "address": "730 5th Ave, New York, NY 10019, Unites States",
      "radius": 50
    },
    "fields": {
      "131312": {
        "type": "text",
        "value": "I love text!"
      }
    },
    "label": "Crown Building",
    "description": "Here we buy our goods",
    "tags": [ 1, 2 ],
    "external_id": "1"
  }
}

errors¶

• 201 - Not found in the database – if there is no POI with such ID.

list¶

Get POIs belonging to user.

parameters¶

examples¶

curl -X POST 'https://api.navixy.com/v2/place/list' \
    -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    -d '{"hash": "22eac1c27af4be7b9d04da2ce1af111b"}'

https://api.navixy.com/v2/place/list?hash=a6aa75587e5c59c32d347da438505fc3

response¶

{
  "success": true,
  "list": [
    {
      "id": 1,
      "icon_id": 55,
      "avatar_file_name": null,
      "location": {
        "lat": 40.773998,
        "lng": -73.66003,
        "address": "730 5th Ave, New York, NY 10019, Unites States",
        "radius": 50
      },
      "fields": {
        "131312": {
          "type": "text",
          "value": "I love text!"
        }
      },
      "label": "Crown Building",
      "description": "Here we buy our goods",
      "tags": [ 1, 2 ],
      "external_id": "1"
    }
  ],
  "count": 1
}

• count - int. Found POIs count.

errors¶

General types only.

create¶

Creates a new POI.

required sub-user rights: place_update.

parameters¶

example¶

curl -X POST 'https://api.navixy.com/v2/place/create' \
    -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    -d '{"hash": "22eac1c27af4be7b9d04da2ce1af111b", "place": {"icon_id" : 55, "avatar_file_name": null, "location": {"lat": 40.773998, "lng": -73.66003, "address": "730 5th Ave, New York, NY 10019, Unites States", "radius": 50}, "fields": {"131312": {"type": "text", "value": "I love text!"}}, "label": "Crown Building", "description": "Here we buy our goods", "tags": [1, 2], "external_id": "1"}'

response¶

{
  "success": true,
  "id": 111
}

• id - int. An ID of the created POI.

errors¶

• 268 - Over quota – if the user's quota for POIs exceeded.

search_location¶

Gets all POI IDs and names within which a specified coordinates are located inside.

parameters¶

example¶

curl -X POST 'https://api.navixy.com/v2/place/search_location' \
    -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    -d '{"hash": "22eac1c27af4be7b9d04da2ce1af111b", "location": {"lat": 34.178868, "lng": -118.599672}}'

response¶

{
  "list": [
    {
      "id": 1201,
      "label": "place 1"
    },
    {
      "id": 3574,
      "label": "place 2"
    }
  ],
  "success": true
}

• id - int. Place ID that containing a searched location.
• label - string. Place name.

update¶

Updates existing POI.

required sub-user rights: place_update.

parameters¶

example¶

curl -X POST 'https://api.navixy.com/v2/place/update' \
    -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    -d '{"hash": "22eac1c27af4be7b9d04da2ce1af111b", "place": {"id": 111, "icon_id" : 55, "avatar_file_name": null, "location": {"lat": 40.773998, "lng": -73.66003, "address": "730 5th Ave, New York, NY 10019, Unites States", "radius": 50}, "fields": {"131312": {"type": "text", "value": "I love text!"}}, "label": "Crown Building", "description": "Here we buy our goods", "tags": [1, 2], "external_id": "1"}'

response¶

{ "success": true }

errors¶

• 201 - Not found in the database – if there is no POI with such ID.

delete¶

Deletes POI with the specified ID.

required sub-user rights: place_update.

parameters¶

examples¶

curl -X POST 'https://api.navixy.com/v2/place/delete' \
    -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    -d '{"hash": "22eac1c27af4be7b9d04da2ce1af111b", "place_id": 122304}'

https://api.navixy.com/v2/place/delete?hash=a6aa75587e5c59c32d347da438505fc3&place_id=122304

response¶

{ "success": true }

errors¶

• 201 - Not found in the database – if there is no POI with such ID.

batch_convert¶

Converts batch of tab-delimited POIs and return list of checked POIs with errors.

Required sub-user rights: place_update.

parameters¶

If file_id is set – batch parameter will be ignored.

response¶

{
  "success": true,
  "list": [
    {
      "id": 1,
      "icon_id": 55,
      "avatar_file_name": null,
      "location": {
        "lat": 40.773998,
        "lng": -73.66003,
        "address": "730 5th Ave, New York, NY 10019, Unites States",
        "radius": 50
      },
      "fields": {
        "131312": {
          "type": "text",
          "value": "I love text!"
        }
      },
      "label": "Crown Building",
      "description": "Here we buy our goods",
      "tags": [ 1, 2 ],
      "external_id": "1",
      "errors": <array_of_objects>,
      "tag_names": <array_of_strings>
    }
  ],
  "limit_exceeded": false
}

• list - a list of objects.
  • errors - optional array of objects. Errors found during check.
  • tag_names - optional string array. Tag names of the POI.
• limit_exceeded - boolean. true if given batch constrained by a limit.

errors¶

• 234 - Invalid data format.

upload¶

Upload POIs.

Required sub-user rights: place_update.

MUST be a POST multipart request (multipart/form-data), with one of the parts being a CSV file upload (with the name "file").

CSV column separator is ;, columns header required – label;address;lat;lng;radius;external_id;description.

parameters¶

response¶

{
  "success": true,
  "total": 1,
  "errors": 0
}

errors¶

• 233 - No data file – if file part is missing.
• 234 - Invalid data format.
• 247 - Entity already exists – if uploaded POI contains external_id and POI with this ID already exists and duplicate_policy=fail.
• 268 - Over quota – if the user's quota for POIs exceeded.