geo.what3words

JS.Geo.What3Words

A node.js wrapper for the What3Words API.

Turns WGS84 coordinates into three words or OneWords and vice-versa using what3words.com HTTP API

Further information on the What3Words API and its features is available at http://what3words.com/api/reference.

Installation

Installing using npm (node package manager):

npm install what3words

If you don't have npm installed or don't want to use it:

cd ~/.node_libraries
git clone git://github.com/lokku/js-geo-what3words.git what3words

Please note that parts of this library depend on unirest by Mashape. This library needs to be installed for the API to work.

Usage

Initialization

var What3Words = require('./lib/geo.what3words.js'),
    w3w = new What3Words('YOUR_API_KEY');

The constructor function also takes an optional configuration object:

var What3Words = require('./lib/geo.what3words.js'),
    w3w = new What3Words('YOUR_API_KEY', {
    	language: ''ru',
    	userAgent: ''Your custom UA'
    });

Words2Position

w3w.wordsToPosition({
  words: 'prom.cape.pump'
}, function(response) {
  console.log(response); // 51.484463,-0.195405 
});

Optional parameters:

• full returns the full response of the api
• lang sets a different language for the response

Position2Words

w3w.positionToWords({
  position: '51.484463,-0.195405'
}, function(response) {

  console.log(response); //prom.cape.pump
});

Optional parameters:

• full returns the full response of the api
• lang sets a different language for the response

OneWordAvailable

w3w.oneWordAvailable({
  word: 'nestoria'
}, function(response) {

  console.log(response); // 1
});

Optional parameters:

• full returns the full response of the api
• lang sets a different language for the response

GetLanguages

w3w.getLanguages({}, function(response) {
  console.log(response); // [ 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'pt', 'ru', 'sv', 'tr' ]
});

Optional parameters:

• full returns the full response of the api
• lang sets a different language for the response

License

JS.Geo.What3Words is licensed under the MIT License. (See LICENSE)