Resolve a WhatsApp place name into coordinates
Make place names usable for coordinate-based environmental checks by resolving the location first.
Trigger
New Message Received
Triggered in real time when your WhatsApp Business number receives an inbound message from a customer (text, media, location, or contact). Delivered via the Cloud API webhook.
Action
Geocode by Place
Tool to transform a place name or address into geographic coordinates. use after confirming the location name to get precise latitude and longitude.
Why this helps
Location-based lookups can stall when a customer provides a place name but the next step needs coordinates.
- Convert a confirmed place name or address into geographic coordinates.
- Use the result to support a separate coordinate-based Ambee action.
- Keep ambiguous locations from being treated as confirmed.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect WhatsApp and Ambee once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, and name it for location resolution.
- 3Tell Notis to identify a confirmed place or address in an environmental question, geocode it with Ambee, and return the coordinates or request clarification if ambiguous.
- 4Pick the New Message Received trigger and choose where run reports should go.
- 5Test with one real message containing a recognizable place name.
Questions about this workflow
Does geocoding provide air quality data too?
No. This action transforms a place name or address into coordinates. A separate Ambee action is needed to retrieve environmental data.
What if a place name could refer to several locations?
Notis should ask the customer to clarify the location before geocoding it.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Whatsapp to Ambee. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Whatsapp triggers
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Recurring trigger
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Message Status Updated
Triggers when a WhatsApp message status changes. IMPORTANT LIMITATION: WhatsApp Cloud API does not provide a native polling endpoint for message status. Status updates are ONLY delivered via webhooks in real-time. This trigger cannot directly poll the WhatsApp API for status updates. This trigger will return empty results as WhatsApp does not support this operation. To track message status updates, you must: 1. Set up a webhook endpoint to receive status notifications from WhatsApp 2. Store the webhook data in your own database 3. Use a different mechanism to query your stored webhook data For more information, see: - https://developers.facebook.com/docs/whatsapp/cloud-api/webhooks
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