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October 10, 2006
Moving to Geonames
We've been struggling with the geo data for a while, after compiling a database from various sources ourselves. A lot of work, very doable, yet usually beaten by other work on people's priority lists here. Over the last months, www.geonames.org seems to pick up more and more steam, and so we decided to move over and team up with the community maintaining that data. Tomorrow, we'll start migrating the current database content, and have a first go at staying up-to-date with the geonames.org changes.
There is some python code available to interface with the geonames web services, so that fuels my hopes we can also manage to link up in a more "web 2.0" way with the data services over there. It's about time we have some more mashing up than just our Google maps. If anyone is already working on a Django interface for this, I'd love to hear from you!
Posted by rolf at October 10, 2006 12:49 PM
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You may even consider to geo enable your blog entries using the geonames database. I'd like to see your campaigns, ships and local actions on a map and read about.
To fire some imagination:
http://www.geonames.org/rss-to-georss-converter.html
http://geonames.wordpress.com/2006/06/07/rss-to-georss/
http://exploreourpla.net/2006-06-08/georss-feed-reader-shows-podcasts.html
Posted by: noiv at October 10, 2006 6:51 PM
I'll forward your suggestion about geotagging our blogs to the webbies here, to prove there is a real demand for this :-) Thanks!
Posted by: Rolf Kleef at October 11, 2006 10:18 AM