EMBEDEARTH / SEARCH API

Homeless Shelter Search API

Find homeless shelters by transit, hospitals, community services, food assistance, and neighborhoods.

LIVE QUERY SHAPE

search(feature)
→ filter by area
→ rank by context
→ return geometry
core search

Search Homeless Shelters by Region, Radius, Polygon, or Viewport

Search homeless shelters by geography instead of relying on text alone. EDK supports regional search, bounding boxes, polygons, radii, and viewport queries, making shelter locator API useful for local discovery, infrastructure research, and programmatic geographic analysis.

developers

Use Homeless Shelters Across Backend, Browser, Pipeline, and AI

EDK lets developers use homeless shelters as more than one endpoint. Search produces structured geography, maps and tiles render it, routing measures access, and Compute handles relationships. API, SDK, CLI, and MCP expose those capabilities for different parts of the stack.

context

See What Surrounds Every Homeless Shelter

Join homeless shelters to transit, hospitals, community centers and other nearby geography. EDK can answer what is closest, what is reachable, what clusters nearby, and what falls inside a local catchment, adding useful place context without a separate GIS workflow.

ai

Give AI Agents Real Homeless Shelters Tools

Expose shelter locator API, routing, maps, and spatial compute through MCP so an agent can perform geographic work instead of approximating it in text. A model can find homeless shelters, compare them with transit and hospitals, calculate service coverage and support proximity, and return structured or map-ready results.

maps

Turn Homeless Services Map into a Product Layer

Map homeless shelters without maintaining a separate visualization index. EDK can return map-ready geometry, update results as the viewport changes, and combine the primary layer with transit and hospitals. Styling remains under the application’s control.

coverage

Measure Homeless Shelters Coverage and Geographic Gaps

Use catchments, nearest-distance analysis, and counts to see where homeless shelters are concentrated and where coverage breaks down. Combine social services GIS data with transit and hospitals to identify underserved areas, redundant facilities, or regions where new capacity may matter.

routing

Make Homeless Shelters Search Route-Aware

Combine shelter locator API with routing so results reflect practical access. Find homeless shelters along a route, rank candidates by ETA, or constrain search to a detour threshold. The routing layer can feed logistics, field work, trip planning, or service-access products.

industry

Homeless Shelters Data for Health and Social Services, Local Government, and Real Estate

Teams across health and social services, local government, real estate, community planning can use social services GIS data for discovery, planning, due diligence, or operations. EDK remains programmable, so each industry can combine homeless shelters with its own scoring rules, private datasets, and product experience.

ONE GEOGRAPHIC WORKFLOW

Search, map, route, and compute with EDK.

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