# HERE Location Services (slim)

> HERE Technologies' REST APIs for geocoding, place search, routing, matrix and isoline routing, traffic, transit and map tiles, called with an API key or OAuth token. A hosted MCP server, HERE Location Reasoning, exposes 13 of these operations as tools.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/here-location-services.md (~8,050 tokens) · this version ~1,680 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/here-location-services.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/here-location-services
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-10

**C · 58/100 · rank #591 of 950 · #9 in Maps, geocoding & places · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: Each endpoint page carries an OpenAPI 3.0 definition as Markdown, and HERE publishes 99.9 per cent monthly availability targets and a six-month deprecation policy. The Platform Terms of September 2023 forbid using HERE Materials in connection with a machine learning or AI system, and the price table could not be read.

## Facts

- Kind: HTTP API · vendor: HERE Technologies · category: Maps, geocoding & places · legal entity: HERE Europe B.V. · provenance 73/100
- Endpoint: `https://geocode.search.hereapi.com/v1` (HTTP, Streamable HTTP)
- Auth: OAuth or key · pricing: Freemium · x402: no · licence: Proprietary service under the HERE Platform Terms
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- APIs: Geocoding and Search v7 (geocode, reverse geocode, autocomplete, autosuggest, discover, browse, lookup, batch), Routing v8, Matrix Routing v8, Isoline Routing v8, Waypoints Sequence, Route Matching, Traffic, Public Transit, raster and vector tiles
- MCP server: HERE Location Reasoning, hosted at https://hlr.here.ai/mcp. 13 tools in the docs, two marked experimental. Needs an account entitlement
- Credentials: API key in the `apiKey` query parameter, OAuth 2.0 client credentials, or OAuth 2.1 `private_key_jwt`. Two keys or two JWKs an app, and up to 20 trusted domains in the console
- Storage: Results may be cached or stored outside the platform for at most 30 days (24 hours for Positioning), and only as HTTP caching headers allow, per the Platform Terms
- AI clause: Platform Terms forbid using HERE Materials in connection with a machine learning or AI system, generative AI included
- Availability target: 99.9 per cent a month for Geocoding and Search v7 and Routing v8. Service credits need the Essential support plan or above
- Errors: JSON body with `status`, `title`, `code`, `cause`, `action`, `correlationId` and `requestId`. 429 or 503 when a quota is exceeded
- Deprecations: Six months' notice before a product is discontinued, 6 to 12 months for a deprecated feature
- Data use: HERE uses anonymised or aggregated findings from platform use to develop its products. Essential Data Processing domains such as `subp-router.hereapi.com` switch that off
- Certifications: ISO/IEC 27001:2022, 27701, 27017, 27018, 42001, TISAX AL3, CSA STAR Level 2, SOC 2 Type 2 for Platform Foundation and Workspace
- Support: Developer plan $50 a month with 72-hour response, Essential from $525, Advanced from $2,200

- Scores: Reliability 57, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 87, Agent ergonomics 74, Security & auth 65, Payments & pricing 10, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 60, Transparency & trust 63 · negative events -3 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Graded on the REST APIs (Geocoding and Search v7, Routing v8) with the hosted lines. · Schema & documentation, Each endpoint page has a Markdown twin holding an OpenAPI 3.0.0 definition, read for `/geocode` at version 7.157 (25). · Agent ergonomics, `limit` sizes geocoding responses (1 to 100, default 20), and `show` and `return` parameters add optional blocks only when asked for. · Security & auth, Credentials are API keys, OAuth 2.0 client credentials and OAuth 2.1 `private_key_jwt` with a registered JWK, where the private key stays wi… · Payments & pricing, No x402, MPP or L402 was found in the docs index or the terms (0). · Maintenance & community, The newest dated API entries are Matrix Routing 8.49.0 on 9 September 2026 and Routing 8.162.0 on 7 September 2026, 30 and 32 days before th… · Transparency & trust, Closed service under public, dated terms.
- Sources: 28, open questions: 9, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: geo.geocode, geo.reverse, geo.places, geo.routing, geo.tiles
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/here-location-services.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/here-location-services.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/here-location-services from a page on here.com or one of its subdomains, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.

## Before you call it

1. Send `Authorization: Bearer` with an OAuth token where logs are kept. The `apiKey` query parameter puts the secret in every URL
2. Do not store results for more than 30 days, and follow the HTTP caching headers on each response
3. Treat 429 and 503 as throttling. HERE says a traffic surge can be throttled for about 10 minutes below the account's quota
4. Read `code`, `cause` and `action` in the error body, and quote `correlationId` to support
5. For Location Reasoning, send `initialize`, keep the `Mcp-Session-Id` header on later calls, and send a bearer token on `tools/call`

## Connect

```bash
curl "https://geocode.search.hereapi.com/v1/geocode?q=240+Washington+St.%2C+Boston&limit=4&apiKey=$HERE_API_KEY"
```
Full config and headless snippets are in the full page. Through letme (picks today, calling later): https://letme.dev/here-location-services

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