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