How to POST point location to Salesforce REST API?

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What is the right JSON format to post a geolocation (point) to the Salesforce REST API? I am getting either deserialization or permission errors (despite wide open administrator permissions in my sandbox).

I tried: 

{"location__c": {"latitude": 34, "longitude": 23}} # the actual return when a GET the field

and 

{"location__c__latitude": 34, "location__c__longitude": 23}

and 

{"latitude__c": 34, "longitude__c": 23} # this one out of desperation.

Obviously with all the necessary boilerplate and authentication. Posting to other custom fields works just fine.

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1 Answers

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As per https://help.salesforce.com/apex/HTViewHelpDoc?id=custom_field_geolocate_overview.htm&language=en you need to specify them in a slightly different format, like so:

location__latitude__s, location__longitude__s

So, if you have an object with a geolocation (let's say an object called "house"), you'd do

{"house":{"location__latitude__s":34, "location__longitude__s":23}}