Yahoo! Internet Location Platform
It is finished! What so much talked about inside Yahoo! (and about that - to my personal regret - knew so few people outside the company) finally happened - the Internet Location Platform became a public service, as part of Yahoo! Developer Network
Excerpt from the site:
The search can be carried out in a variety of variations - only by name, by name indicating County / State / Country in any combinations; if there are several options, then the “most popular” is chosen - without going into details, the criterion of popularity is the number of mentions of this place on the Internet.
At the moment, this product is used in Yahoo! (excluding, however, Yahoo! Maps - for various reasons, but that will change soon). The database contains more than 6 million entities - that is, coverage in America and Europe is almost 100% (in Russia, of course, less - but again, the situation is improving and will be greatly improved later).
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Request examples:
If someone is interested in details about the service and in general about the platform - ask, I do not promise that I will answer all the questions, but I will try at least ;-)
Excerpt from the site:
The Yahoo! Internet Location Platform Our goal is to provide the Yahoo! The Geographic Developer Community has a permanent, permanent, and language-neutral manner.Briefly tell what it is. The key concept of ILP is WOEID (read: voi-ai-di ) - WhereOnEarth IDentifier is a unique identifier for any place on earth (almost literal translation), a 32-bit number. The identifier can have (and have) countries, cities, streets, as well as all that can be combined under the concept of POI - place of interest. For example, WOEID London, where this service was developed - 44418 .
The search can be carried out in a variety of variations - only by name, by name indicating County / State / Country in any combinations; if there are several options, then the “most popular” is chosen - without going into details, the criterion of popularity is the number of mentions of this place on the Internet.
At the moment, this product is used in Yahoo! (excluding, however, Yahoo! Maps - for various reasons, but that will change soon). The database contains more than 6 million entities - that is, coverage in America and Europe is almost 100% (in Russia, of course, less - but again, the situation is improving and will be greatly improved later).
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Request examples:
- Southwark Park - POI search
- USA in French - search for the name of a particular place in the specified language
- Top 5 Springfields - a set of WOEID corresponding to a specific name, sorted by popularity
- Neighbors of London - search for "neighbors" of a particular place
If someone is interested in details about the service and in general about the platform - ask, I do not promise that I will answer all the questions, but I will try at least ;-)
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/25084/
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