Default lat/lng

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Hi,

Is there a default lat/lng that consistently gets put in job object json?

I notice when I don’t add an address in the job, there is a consistent default lat/lng present in the json anyway.

Does this differ per sm8 account, or is it uniform?

Thanks

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Hi jack,

What you’re seeing is expected: when a Job doesn’t have a valid (geocoded) job address, the API can still return lat/lng, and those coordinates default to the account’s Office Location lat/lng.

That means it’s not uniform across ServiceM8 accounts, because the Office Location is set per account.

For integrations, the safest way to decide whether the coordinates are usable is geo_is_valid because if it’s false, the lat, lng, and other geo_ fields should not be used.

When an address is provided, ServiceM8 uses job_address for geocoding, and lat/lng are automatically populated based on that job address.

Thanks,
Cody