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An understanding of colloquial geography, such as: - informal place names - boundaries of neighbourhoods - nesting of those things within administrative boun
by scraplab 12y ago
An understanding of colloquial geography, such as:
- informal place names
- boundaries of neighbourhoods
- nesting of those things within administrative boundaries
Yahoo's Where On Earth database had a lot of this, but it doesn't seem to be available to download any more, and they didn't accept updates. GeoNames is pretty messy and inaccurate, and the copyright status has never been cleared up.
- freyfogle 12y agoHi Tom, thanks for commenting. Big fan of your work on flickr neighbourhood boundaries. We hear you and are on it, which doesn't mean we'll be perfect of course, but definitely aware of this issue.
- Jemaclus 12y agoAlso, beware of places like Carmel-by-the-sea, CA, where there are no street addresses! None of the houses in downtown Carmel have mailboxes -- they all have P.O. boxes at the post office downtown. If you try and geocode these, you wind up with the post office lat/lng and not the house! Frustrating as hell...
- vicchi 12y ago"Yahoo's Where On Earth database had a lot of this, but it doesn't seem to be available to download any more, and they didn't accept updates." Hi Tom - as Ed says, big fan of the work you did with Flickr's shapefiles and I still use your boundaries site on a regular basis. Yes, GeoPlanet has vanished for download from the YDN site but all versions up to 7.10 are still on archive.org (http://archive.org/search.php?query=geoplanet http://archive.org/search.php?query=geoplanet) thanks to the combination of Aaron of Montreal and the CC-BY-SA license we released the data under.