Divisions

AI-generated Key Takeaways

The resource represents a political geographic division, providing details such as its name, Open Civic Data identifier (ocdId), and any alternative identifiers (aliases).
The division's ocdId is a unique identifier, while name displays the division's name, and aliases might include other identifiers referring to the same or related divisions.
This resource offers access to two key methods: search, which allows searching for political divisions by name or OCD ID, and divisionsByAddress, which identifies political divisions associated with a specific address.

For a list of methods for this resource, see the end of this page.

Represents a political geographic division that matches the requested query.

{
  "ocdId": string,
  "name": string,
  "aliases": [
    string
  ]
}

Property name	Value	Description
`aliases[]`	`list`	Other Open Civic Data identifiers that refer to the same division -- for example, those that refer to other political divisions whose boundaries are defined to be coterminous with this one. For example, ocd-division/country:us/state:wy will include an alias of ocd-division/country:us/state:wy/cd:1, since Wyoming has only one Congressional district.
`name`	`string`	The name of the division.
`ocdId`	`string`	The unique Open Civic Data identifier for this division.

divisionsByAddress: Looks up political geographic divisions for a single address.