# APIv4 equivalent to "lookat" for finding images looking at a point

**URL:** <https://forum.mapillary.com/t/apiv4-equivalent-to-lookat-for-finding-images-looking-at-a-point/5829>\
**Category:** Mapillary integrations\
**Created:** [February 17, 2022, 7:50pm UTC](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/apiv4-equivalent-to-lookat-for-finding-images-looking-at-a-point/5829 "2022-02-17T19:50:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![steer360network](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@steer360network](https://forum.mapillary.com/u/steer360network)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2022, 7:50pm UTC](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/apiv4-equivalent-to-lookat-for-finding-images-looking-at-a-point/5829/1 "2022-02-17T19:50:17Z")

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In APIv3 one of the query options was “lookat”, for finding images that show a given location. I don’t see anything equivalent to that in the APIv4 documentation. Is there a way to use the vector tile approach and do something equivalent? I suppose I could recreate it with a bounding box vector tile query, then find nearest image to the point and then check the angle between the compass of the image and the point I’m interested in. But wanted to make sure a workflow doesn’t already exist for this.

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**Author:** ![nikola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a88e57/32.png) [@nikola](https://forum.mapillary.com/u/nikola)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 9:50am UTC](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/apiv4-equivalent-to-lookat-for-finding-images-looking-at-a-point/5829/4 "2024-12-12T09:50:08Z")

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For lookat, please check out [GitHub - mapillary/mapillary-python-sdk: A Python 3 library built on the Mapillary API v4 to facilitate retrieving and working with Mapillary data.](https://github.com/mapillary/mapillary-python-sdk) which contains this and a lot of other helpful functions for working with the Mapillary API.  
@GITNE For uploaded\_at, are you suggesting that it be added on [mapillary.com](http://mapillary.com) where the delete sequence button is?

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**Author:** ![nikola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a88e57/32.png) [@nikola](https://forum.mapillary.com/u/nikola)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 4:27pm UTC](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/apiv4-equivalent-to-lookat-for-finding-images-looking-at-a-point/5829/7 "2025-01-10T16:27:09Z")

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The detections you get from the image API are not the map feature IDs, those are IDs of the detected things within that image.