Install Jentic One Beta

Connect the Geocoder REST API to your agent

Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the Geocoder REST API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.

Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.

Step 1: Jentic One Host machine

# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL "https://jentic.com/install.sh?src=apis&api=%2Fapis%2Fgov.bc.ca%2Fgeocoder" | sh

Step 2: Agent machine

# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL "https://jentic.com/install.sh?src=apis&api=%2Fapis%2Fgov.bc.ca%2Fgeocoder" | sh
jentic register       # connects your agent to your Jentic One instance

Jentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with Geocoder REST API.

Geocode a single BC physical or intersection address into coordinates

Reverse geocode a coordinate to the nearest BC site, occupant, or intersection

Find sites, occupants, or intersections within a radius of a point

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Use Cases

Patterns agents use Geocoder REST API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Address Validation at Form Submission

When a user submits a BC service request form, validate and standardise the address before storing it. GET /addresses.{outputFormat} accepts a free-form address string and returns the cleaned, geocoded result with confidence scores. This prevents downstream failures when the address is later used for routing or service delivery.

Geocode '4730 Kingsway, Burnaby BC' as JSON and return the latitude, longitude, and match confidence score.

Nearest Service Centre Locator

Help a user find the nearest BC government service site to their current location. GET /sites/nearest.{outputFormat} accepts a coordinate and returns the closest registered site, while GET /occupants/nearest.{outputFormat} returns the closest occupant such as a specific business or office. Useful for self-service tools embedded in BC web properties.

Find the nearest occupant to latitude 48.428 longitude -123.366 and return its name and the distance in metres.

Spatial Query for Outreach

Identify every site or occupant inside a polygon for a targeted outreach campaign. GET /sites/within.{outputFormat} and GET /occupants/within.{outputFormat} accept polygon geometry and return matching records. The same endpoints support a near-point variant for radius queries within an outreach zone.

List all sites within 500 metres of latitude 49.282 longitude -123.115 and return their addresses.

AI Agent Address Resolver

An AI agent built on Jentic resolves user-submitted BC addresses into canonical coordinates and standardised street strings. The agent searches Jentic for 'geocode a bc address', loads the GET /addresses operation, and executes with the user input. The apikey header is injected by Jentic so the secret stays in the vault.

Use Jentic to search 'geocode a bc address' and resolve '800 Hornby St Vancouver' to coordinates and a cleaned address.

Key Endpoints

16 endpoints — the bc address geocoder rest api cleans, corrects, completes, geocodes, and reverse geocodes british columbia physical addresses, intersections, and the occupants associated with them.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/addresses.{outputFormat}

Geocode a free-form BC address

GET

/occupants/addresses.{outputFormat}

Look up occupants tied to a BC address

GET

/sites/nearest.{outputFormat}

Find the nearest BC site to a coordinate

GET

/occupants/nearest.{outputFormat}

Find the nearest occupant to a coordinate

GET

/intersections/nearest.{outputFormat}

Find the nearest intersection to a coordinate

GET

/sites/within.{outputFormat}

Find all sites inside a polygon

GET

/sites/near.{outputFormat}

Find sites within a radius of a point

GET

/addresses.{outputFormat}

Geocode a free-form BC address

GET

/occupants/addresses.{outputFormat}

Look up occupants tied to a BC address

GET

/sites/nearest.{outputFormat}

Find the nearest BC site to a coordinate

GET

/occupants/nearest.{outputFormat}

Find the nearest occupant to a coordinate

GET

/intersections/nearest.{outputFormat}

Find the nearest intersection to a coordinate

Why Jentic?

What agents get from Jentic-routed access to this vendor.

Setup

Wiring the BC Geocoder REST API by hand means choosing among its production, test, and delivery hosts, setting the apikey header, and passing the output format as a path segment on every call. Through Jentic you install once, import the BC Geocoder from the API Directory, store the key once, and your agent calls it.

Permission scoping

The geocoder's address and site lookups take their query in parameters rather than a resource id in the path, so limit the agent to the operations it needs, such as geocoding an address or finding the nearest site. You choose the operations it may call, so the agent cannot reach anything you have not included.

Credential isolation

Your BC Geocoder apikey is stored once, encrypted, by your own Jentic One instance and injected as the apikey header at execution time. It never enters the agent's prompt, logs, or context.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'geocode a bc address' or 'find the nearest occupant', and Jentic returns the matching geocoder operation with its outputFormat path parameter typed so the agent calls the right endpoint without reading the docs.

FAQs

Specific to using Geocoder REST API through Jentic.

What authentication does the BC Geocoder API use?

The BC Geocoder API uses an API key passed in the apikey header. Keys are issued through the BC API Directory and tied to a GitHub or IDIR account. When called through Jentic, the apikey is held in Jentic's encrypted vault and injected into the apikey header at request time.

Can I reverse geocode a coordinate with the BC Geocoder API?

Yes. GET /sites/nearest.{outputFormat} returns the nearest BC site to a supplied coordinate, GET /occupants/nearest.{outputFormat} returns the nearest occupant, and GET /intersections/nearest.{outputFormat} returns the nearest street intersection. All three are reverse-geocoding shapes with different result types.

What are the rate limits for the BC Geocoder API?

Specific limits are not declared in the OpenAPI spec. The BC API Directory documents tier-based throttling tied to the issued API key, so plan for modest sustained throughput per key and back off on HTTP 429 responses.

How do I geocode a BC address through Jentic?

Search Jentic for 'geocode a bc address', load the GET /addresses.{outputFormat} operation, and execute with the address string and outputFormat path parameter (typically json or geojson). With pip install jentic the call returns coordinates and the cleaned address.

Does the BC Geocoder API support spatial queries inside a polygon?

Yes. GET /sites/within.{outputFormat}, GET /occupants/within.{outputFormat}, and GET /intersections/within.{outputFormat} accept polygon or bounding-box geometry and return all matching records inside it. Pair with /sites/near for radius queries around a point.

Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the BC Geocoder API?

Yes. Because you run Jentic One yourself, your own rules decide which BC Geocoder operations and credentials the agent may use. You can allow only the calls it actually needs, such as geocoding a free-form address with GET /addresses.{outputFormat} or finding the nearest site with GET /sites/nearest.{outputFormat}, while withholding occupant lookups or within-polygon spatial queries. Since these lookups take their input as query parameters rather than a resource id in the path, the agent can only reach the operations you have included and nothing more.

Gov Bc Ca Geocoder REST API

Name: Geocoder REST API
Brand: Geocoder REST API
Availability: InStock

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Official vendor OpenAPI document · agent-readyMaps GeolocationGeocodingapiKey16 EndpointsREST

For Agents

Geocode and reverse-geocode British Columbia addresses, occupants, and intersections, with proximity search around a coordinate.

Use for: Geocode the address '1234 Government Street, Victoria BC', Find the nearest BC site to latitude 49.28 longitude -123.12, List occupants near a coordinate in downtown Vancouver, Reverse geocode a point to the nearest intersection

Not supported: Does not handle routing, turn-by-turn directions, or addresses outside British Columbia - use for BC address geocoding, reverse geocoding, and proximity search only.

The BC Address Geocoder REST API cleans, corrects, completes, geocodes, and reverse geocodes British Columbia physical addresses, intersections, and the occupants associated with them. It exposes single-address geocoding, bulk autocomplete, and proximity searches such as nearest site, occupants near a point, and intersections near a point. Several endpoints accept a path-level outputFormat extension (such as .json or .geojson). Authentication is by API key passed in the apikey header.

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