Hi Ruth, I did look at geoname's web services. The problem is that I need to send them queries. Can I send a query like give me all the points for a particular country code? If so, then I can look at adapting the xml data to my application.
Pranav -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ruth Lang Sent: Monday, May 30, 2011 4:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: AW: [svg-developers] Create SVG maps from geonames data Hi Pranav, <http://www.geonames.org/> http://www.geonames.org/ gives back info as well as lat/lng values in a JSON format which you can then append to your map application. I am not sure how you can use existing (SVG) applications and implement them in your own environment. I use a lot of their services here: http://www.mappetizer.de/traveldiary/TravelDiary_Ruth/index.html e.g. weather (the sun icon in the toolbar), Wikipedia, but also information about the local language at the specific lat/lng, timezone, findNearBy. It is fun to use those data. --- Ruth Von: [email protected] <mailto:svg-developers%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:svg-developers%40yahoogroups.com> ] Im Auftrag von Pranav Lal Gesendet: Samstag, 28. Mai 2011 01:40 An: [email protected] <mailto:svg-developers%40yahoogroups.com> Betreff: RE: [svg-developers] Create SVG maps from geonames data Hello Cameron, <snip Me, too: that is, I'd be a consumer *or* producer (and in fact already have my own only-runs-in-my-environment demon- stration) of such an application/utility/product/... PL] What does your application do? I plan to parse the text dumps of the map data and then plot them on the map. I will use circles as points. Of course, if geoNames has a database that I can query and get hierarchical information that is, get a state from a country and then all the places under that state, I could produce nicely structured SVG. Pranav [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [email protected] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ----Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
