WOEID

A WOEID (Where On Earth IDentifier) is a unique 32-bit reference identifier, originally defined by GeoPlanet and now assigned by Yahoo!, that identifies any feature on Earth.[1] In 2009, Yahoo! released GeoPlanet's WOEID data to the public,[2] with the last release on 1 June 2012, after which Yahoo! decided to cease making the data downloadable until they "determine a better way to surface the data as a part of the service".[3]

WOEIDs are used by a number of other projects, including Flickr[4] OpenStreetMap,[5] and zWeather.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Yahoo! WOEID Lookup". http://Zourbuth Project.
  2. ↑ "Free geo data solutions compared: GeoNames.org vs. Yahoo! GeoPlanet". Cosmo Code. 24 January 2010.
  3. ↑ "Yahoo! GeoPlanet™ Data". Yahoo!. Archived from the original on 25 June 2014.
  4. ↑ "Flickr Services: Flickr API: flickr.places.getInfo". www.flickr.com. Retrieved 2016-05-01.
  5. ↑ "Key:woeid - OpenStreetMap Wiki". wiki.openstreetmap.org. Retrieved 2016-05-01.
  6. ↑ "zWeatherFeed - Weather Feed Using WOEID Locations". Zazar.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Sunday, May 01, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.