Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Summary: Representing Places With Intelligent URLs

2010-10-08 Thread Raj Singh
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? ---

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Summary: Representing Places With Intelligent URLs

2010-10-07 Thread Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas
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