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Example API response from Census Reporter, showing geograhic metadata (including coordinates) for Spokane, WA. If you make a request to http://api.censusreporter.org/1.0/geo/tiger2012/16000US5367000?geom=true, you'll get results like this.
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censusreporter_geo_example.json
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},
"type": "Feature",
"properties": {
"awater": 1991595,
"display_name": "Spokane, WA",
"simple_name": "Spokane",
"sumlevel": "160",
"population": 208040,
"full_geoid": "16000US5367000",
"aland": 178021482
}
}
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