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. In 2009, Yahoo! released GeoPlanet's WOEID data to the public, 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".

WOEIDs are used by a number of other projects, including Flickr, OpenStreetMap, Twitter, WOEID Search Engine (archive link) and Nations24.

A successor to the WOEID project is Who's On First.

From WOEID Search Engine:

Example

E.g. Berlin does not know about Germany, which itself doesn't know about Europe and so forth.[clarification needed] GeoPlanet records, or places as they are called by Yahoo!, always (except one) have a reference to its parent place and therefore offer relations between places like the following:

If you take e.g. our company's district you will get the following family tree:

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Yahoo! WOEID Lookup". Zourbuth Project. Archived from the original on 2014-06-25. Retrieved 2016-05-01.
  2. ↑ "Free geo data solutions compared: GeoNames.org vs. Yahoo! GeoPlanet". Cosmo Code. 24 January 2010. Archived from the original on 14 October 2016. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
  3. ↑ "Yahoo! GeoPlanet™ Data". Yahoo!. Archived from the original on 22 August 2014. Retrieved 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. ↑ "Twitter Developer Documentation". developer.twitter.com. Retrieved 2019-01-08.
  7. ↑ "WOEID Search Engine (archive link)" originally findmycity.com
  8. ↑ "Free geo data solutions compared: GeoNames.org vs. Yahoo! GeoPlanet - CosmoCode GmbH". www.cosmocode.de. Archived from the original on 2010-01-27.