I've loved YQL in demos. But Yahoo doesn't seem to get any buzz around their geo stuff. They have a lot of cool stuff, but it's so fragmented and I can never tell if it will grow, mature and/or play nice with other apps. Does anyone have a better feeling about Yahoo's services and strategy? --- Raj
On Oct 7, at 3:46 PM, Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
