Yahoo WOEID, Flickr shapefiles

[Nathan Vander Wilt-2]

Yahoo! has released their WOEID names/relationship database as CC-
BY-3.0:
http://www.ygeoblog.com/2009/05/announcing-geoplanet-data/

The GeoPlanet Data does not contain any coordinate information, though  
Flickr has also released a set of shapefiles as CC0, derived from WOEID
+lat/lon geotagged photos:
http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/05/21/flickr-shapefiles-public-dataset-10/

This seems of interest to GeoNames. It could be cool to have a mapping  
of GNIS identifiers to WOEIDs. Would that be within the mission of  
GeoNames?

thanks,
-natevw
http://calftrail.com

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[Marc Wick]

It is awesome and certainly within the mission of GeoNames.
I am looking forward to play with the data. It is a fantastic move by
Yahoo! to release the data under a really open license.

Best

Marc

Nathan Vander Wilt wrote:

> Yahoo! has released their WOEID names/relationship database as CC-
> BY-3.0:
> http://www.ygeoblog.com/2009/05/announcing-geoplanet-data/
>
> The GeoPlanet Data does not contain any coordinate information, though  
> Flickr has also released a set of shapefiles as CC0, derived from WOEID
> +lat/lon geotagged photos:
> http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/05/21/flickr-shapefiles-public-dataset-10/
>
> This seems of interest to GeoNames. It could be cool to have a mapping  
> of GNIS identifiers to WOEIDs. Would that be within the mission of  
> GeoNames?
>
> thanks,
> -natevw
> http://calftrail.com
>
> >
>

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