Check if address is located within NYC

[WillNilges]

I'm working on a project that needs to get the BIN from a given address, and I noticed that if I give it an address in, say, Ohio, it will still spit out a result, vastly wrong as it may be.

Here's an example:

    def lookup(address):
        print(f"Address is {address}")
        # Look up BIN in NYC Planning's Authoritative Search
        query_params = {
            "text": address,
            "size": 1,
        }
        nyc_planning_req = requests.get(f"https://geosearch.planninglabs.nyc/v2/search", params=query_params)
        nyc_planning_resp = json.loads(nyc_planning_req.content.decode("utf-8"))
        print(nyc_planning_resp)

        if len(nyc_planning_resp["features"]) == 0:
            raise requests.exceptions.HTTPError("Address not found.")

        bin = nyc_planning_resp["features"][0]["properties"]["addendum"]["pad"]["bin"]
        longitude, latitude = nyc_planning_resp["features"][0]["geometry"]["coordinates"]
        print(bin, longitude, latitude)

Address is 1 Capitol Square, Columbus, OH 43215
{'geocoding': {'version': '0.2', 'attribution': 'http://geosearch.planninglabs.nyc/attribution', 'query': {'text': '1 Capitol Square, Columbus, OH 43215', 'size': 1, 'private': False, 'lang': {'name': 'English', 'iso6391': 'en', 'iso6393': 'eng', 'via': 'default', 'defaulted': True},
 'querySize': 20, 'parser': 'pelias', 'parsed_text': {'subject': '1 Capitol Square', 'housenumber': '1', 'street': 'Capitol Square', 'locality': 'Columbus', 'region': 'OH', 'postcode': '43215', 'admin': 'Columbus, OH'}}, 'engine': {'name': 'Pelias', 'author': 'Mapzen', 'version': '1.
0'}, 'timestamp': 1698382191726}, 'type': 'FeatureCollection', 'features': [{'type': 'Feature', 'geometry': {'type': 'Point', 'coordinates': [-73.943863, 40.747003]}, 'properties': {'id': '1745142', 'gid': 'nycpad:venue:1745142', 'layer': 'venue', 'source': 'nycpad', 'source_id': '17
45142', 'country_code': 'US', 'name': '1 COURT SQUARE', 'housenumber': '1', 'street': 'COURT SQUARE', 'postalcode': '11101', 'confidence': 0.8, 'match_type': 'fallback', 'accuracy': 'point', 'country': 'United States', 'country_gid': 'whosonfirst:country:85633793', 'country_a': 'USA'
, 'region': 'New York', 'region_gid': 'whosonfirst:region:85688543', 'region_a': 'NY', 'county': 'Queens County', 'county_gid': 'whosonfirst:county:102082377', 'locality': 'New York', 'locality_gid': 'whosonfirst:locality:85977539', 'locality_a': 'NYC', 'borough': 'Queens', 'borough_
gid': 'whosonfirst:borough:421205767', 'neighbourhood': 'Long Island City', 'neighbourhood_gid': 'whosonfirst:neighbourhood:85831303', 'label': '1 COURT SQUARE, Long Island City, NY, USA', 'addendum': {'pad': {'bbl': '4000790030', 'bin': '4307108', 'version': '23B'}}}}], 'bbox': [-73
.943863, 40.747003, -73.943863, 40.747003]}

I suppose it uses fuzzy search to give you the closest result, but the website autocomplete gives you nothing, which is arguably better:

https://geosearch.planninglabs.nyc/v2/autocomplete?text=1 Capitol Square, Columbus, OH 43215

{"geocoding":{"version":"0.2","attribution":"http://geosearch.planninglabs.nyc/attribution","query":{"text":"1 Capitol Square, Columbus, OH 43215","parser":"pelias","parsed_text":{"subject":"1 Capitol Square","housenumber":"1","street":"Capitol Square","locality":"Columbus","region":"OH","postcode":"43215","admin":"Columbus, OH"},"size":10,"private":false,"lang":{"name":"English","iso6391":"en","iso6393":"eng","via":"header","defaulted":false},"querySize":20},"engine":{"name":"Pelias","author":"Mapzen","version":"1.0"},"timestamp":1698384129413},"type":"FeatureCollection","features":[]}

Two workarounds that will probably work OK for my use case

• Check the contents of the address fields in the API response and compare to the input. If they don't match, bail.
• Use the autocomplete API, possibly even in my frontend, instead of doing all the address validation in the backend.