Thanks for the suggestion Jorge. I'm checking out the stuff from Yahoo today.
Landon Office Phone Number: (209) 946-0268 Cell Phone Number: (209) 992-0658 -----Original Message----- From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 12:47 PM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Summary: Representing Places With Intelligent URLs On 6 October 2010 18:02, Raj Singh <r...@rajsingh.org> wrote: > I think that's the most sensible idea. Geonames seems to be the gold standard > right now. > --- > Raj > > > sorry to be late to this geowanking but what about the geoplanet database from yahoo? It's a hierarchical database of place names with aliases. Taking your example, and using a GUI for this database, take a look on [1] to see a nice representation of the graph neighbours of your Stockton town (witch has the unique WOEID #2500105). And using Yahoo Query Language you can create a sentence and get parents on the geoplanet database for Stockton in XML or JSON[2]. Thanks to YQL you can do some work on geoplanet without needing an AppId. Best [1] http://isithackday.com/geoplanet-explorer/index.php?woeid=2500105 [2] http://y.ahoo.it/YGCu+wNR -- Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas Ingeniero en Geodesia y Cartografía http://jorgesanz.net _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss Warning: Information provided via electronic media is not guaranteed against defects including translation and transmission errors. If the reader is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this information in error, please notify the sender immediately. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
