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] Twitter,[6] WOEID Search Engine (archive link) and Nations24.
WOEID of some popular locations on Earth
From WOEID Search Engine:[7]
- 4118 - Toronto
- 44418 - London
- 615702 - Paris
- 2295019 - New Delhi
- 2295380 - Varanasi
- 2442047 - Los Angeles
- 2459115 - New York
- 2487956 - San Francisco
- 23424851 - Iran
- 29128560 - Kaithi
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:[8]
- Parent (direct surrounding place)
- Child (direct sub-places)
- Siblings (places sharing the same parent and place type)
- Ancestors (set of all parents)
If you take e.g. our company's district you will get the following family tree:
- Deutschland (WOEID 23424829)
- Bundesland Berlin (WOEID 2345496)
- Stadtkreis Berlin (WOEID 1259838)
- Berlin (WOEID 638242)
- Ortsteil Pankow (WOEID 26821868)
- Ortsteil Prenzlauer Berg (WOEID 26821872)
- Ortsteil Wedding (WOEID 26821851)
- Suan Luang (WOEID 12756344)
- ...
- Berlin (WOEID 638242)
- Stadtkreis Berlin (WOEID 1259838)
- Bundesland Berlin (WOEID 2345496)
See also
References
- ^ "Yahoo! WOEID Lookup". Zourbuth Project.
- ^ "Free geo data solutions compared: GeoNames.org vs. Yahoo! GeoPlanet". Cosmo Code. 24 January 2010.
- ^ "Yahoo! GeoPlanet™ Data". Yahoo!. Archived from the original on 22 August 2014. Retrieved 25 June 2014.
- ^ "Flickr Services: Flickr API: flickr.places.getInfo". www.flickr.com. Retrieved 2016-05-01.
- ^ "Key:woeid - OpenStreetMap Wiki". wiki.openstreetmap.org. Retrieved 2016-05-01.
- ^ "Twitter Developer Documentation". developer.twitter.com. Retrieved 2019-01-08.
- ^ "WOEID Search Engine (archive link)" originally findmycity.com
- ^ "Free geo data solutions compared: GeoNames.org vs. Yahoo! GeoPlanet - CosmoCode GmbH". www.cosmocode.de. Archived from the original on 2010-01-27.