# POI R Client Coordinate issue

**URL:** <https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/poi-r-client-coordinate-issue/5439>\
**Category:** openrouteservice\
**Created:** [November 5, 2023, 3:17pm UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/poi-r-client-coordinate-issue/5439 "2023-11-05T15:17:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/user_avatar/ask.openrouteservice.org/jack_batty/32/2603_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/u/Jack_Batty)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2023, 3:17pm UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/poi-r-client-coordinate-issue/5439/1 "2023-11-05T15:17:44Z")

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URL: [Dashboard | ORS](https://openrouteservice.org/dev/#/api-docs/pois/post)

I am currently using the R Client to gather information for Points of Interest across a city in the UK with the coordinates (52.4730,1.9826) to (52.4597,1.9617), but I am finding that all coordinates I enter provides results from the ocean.

I have tried swapping Lon,Lat etc as suggested.  
I have GeoJSON files that I can use but I am not sure about the method to specify them through the Client.

Any comments appreciated.

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**Author:** ![andrzej](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/user_avatar/ask.openrouteservice.org/andrzej/32/10_2.png) [@andrzej](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/u/andrzej)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2023, 12:17am UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/poi-r-client-coordinate-issue/5439/2 "2023-11-08T00:17:45Z")

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You can find an example on how to query the POIs endpoint in the [package vignette](https://giscience.github.io/openrouteservice-r/articles/openrouteservice.html#pois).

Cheers!  
Andrzej

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**Author:** ![johntdata](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/user_avatar/ask.openrouteservice.org/johntdata/32/644_2.png) [@johntdata](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/u/johntdata)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2023, 10:32am UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/poi-r-client-coordinate-issue/5439/3 "2023-11-14T10:32:25Z")

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> [@Jack\_Batty](#):
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> 52.4597,1.9617

Hi @Jack_Batty , (52.4597,1.9617) is indeed in the ocean so there’s no ambiguity there. I wonder if you mean (52.4597,-1.9617) which is in Birmingham? Longitudes can be positive or negative depending on which side of the prime meridian they are. Likewise latitudes and the equator