## Search Overview

### Introduction

Search is a set of methods in the Geocoding API service that helps you find places in Vietnam. It covers autocomplete suggestions while a user is typing, and nearby search for places around a given coordinate.

### Why use Search

With Search, you can help users find the right place quickly — whether they're typing a partial address or looking for places around their current location — while getting back structured, ready-to-use place data.

### What you can do with Search?

With the Geocoding API `Search` methods, you can do the following things:

- **Suggest places as the user types**, ranked by relevance and optionally biased toward a location.
- **Find places near a coordinate**, optionally filtered by a keyword and a search radius or bounding box.


### How Search works

The Geocoding API accepts an HTTP GET request with query parameters that contain the request details.

> Example:


```bash
curl --location 'https://dplace-api.themap.world/geocoding/api/v2/autocomplete?lang=vi&focus.point.lat=10.773220&focus.point.lon=106.725404&text=lotte phu thuy&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY'
```

The service then searches the requested area, and returns the fields you've requested.