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Getting started

Make your first request to Outerview and start building with physical-world intelligence in a few minutes.

How Outerview works

Outerview provides a common API layer over visual observations, geospatial records, public events, environmental signals, and open Earth data.

Choose the primitive that matches your job: Search retrieves features, Research develops answers, Monitor watches for change, and Position locates visual media.

Use plain-language queries instead of stitching together many specialized datasets.
Receive coordinates, areas, evidence, reports, and events in structured responses.
Move from exploration to production monitoring without changing infrastructure.

Make your first request

Set your API base URL and secret key, then send a query to the Search endpoint.

Terminal

curl "$OUTERVIEW_API_URL/search" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OUTERVIEW_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "query": "damaged sidewalks near transit stops",
    "area": "Toronto, Canada",
    "limit": 25
  }'

Choose the right API

/searchretrieval

Use when you need direct points, areas, observations, events, permits, or physical features.

/researchanalysis

Use when you need a report or answer that explains an Earth-related question.

/monitorcontinuous

Use when your application must watch an area and react when conditions change.

/positionlocation

Use when you have an image or video and need to estimate where it was captured.