Filter by result type
HERE Geocoding and Search has an optional parameter types
that allows limiting the results to specific types.
To simplify the usage of this feature, HERE Geocoding and Search API introduces a hierarchical system of values supported by the types
filter. These values include:
- The same values as
resultType
and result sub-types. - "Group" values, which group together logically related result types.
The customer application can set types
to either of the values supported by the endpoint or combine values, using a comma separated list.
Note that not all of these values are or will be supported by the types
filter for all or any of the endpoints. However, if a value is supported by any of the endpoints, its syntax and semantics will be the same.

Support of types filter by HERE Geocoding and Search endpoints
The values per endpoint which are supported:
Reverse Geocode | Geocode | Autocomplete | Discover | Autosuggest | Browse | Lookup By ID | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
area | stable | beta | stable | - | - | - | N/A |
city | stable | beta | stable | - | - | - | N/A |
postalCode | - | beta | stable | - | - | - | N/A |
address | stable | beta | - | - | - | - | N/A |
street | stable | beta | - | - | - | - | N/A |
houseNumber | - | beta | - | - | - | - | N/A |
"-" - currently not supported; "N/A" - not applicable
Description of the supported values:
area
: restricting results to result types:locality
oradministrativeArea
including all the sub-types.city
: restricting results to result typelocality
and locality typecity
.postalCode
: restricting results to postal codes: either result typepostalCodePoint
or result typelocality
with locality typepostalCode
. Note that in Ireland and Singapore, where each address has unique postal code,postalCodePoint
results are replaced byhouseNumber
results.address
: restricting results to result typeshouseNumber
,street
,postalCodePoint
,intersection
, oraddressBlock
.street
: restricting results to result type:street
.houseNumber
: restricting results to result type:houseNumber
, including house number typesPA
(Point Address) andinterpolated
; including exact house number matches and house number fallbacks.
For more information about /types
parameter, see: API Reference.
For lookup
endpoint, types
filter is not applicable and will not be supported at all.
All the values not covered by this table are not supported by the endpoint. For queries with parameters or values of parameters not supported by specific endpoints, HERE Geocoding and Search responds with a "400" error code.
NOTE
In rare cases, GS7 API may still accept non-supported values of types
filter or other query parameters and either pass them through or even change the behavior depending on the parameter. This may happen when the feature is in development and is going through testing and feedback process as alpha. Customers are advised not to use non-documented behavior and expect that it may change at any moment. Note additionally, using the types filter on non-supported endpoints (browse, autosuggest, discover) likely results in a 400 error response.